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Join Danielle Crittenden in conversation with Indigo’s Chief Book Lover Heather Reisman about her unflichingly honest book Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable.
Event Guidelines:
- This is a ticketed event
- Tickets include access to the event space, the signing line and one copy of Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable.
- Candid photography only
About the Book:
On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden's world cleaved in two: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. With unflinching honesty and unexpected grace, she chronicles the shattering impact of a child's death and the strange afterlife of grief itself: how it infiltrates grocery stores and dinner parties, transforms friendships, and ultimately reshapes the mourner as fundamentally as the world.Here is grief in all its terrible specificity: the police call that changes everything, the surreal task of choosing a burial dress, the well-meaning friends who "griefsplain." But here too is love distilled: a mother's meditation on a daughter who commanded dinner tables at twelve, who interviewed Dick Cheney with a child's notebook, who transformed into a luminous young woman living her dreams in New York. She writes of joining "the world's worst club"—parents who have lost children—and the terrible wisdom its members share.Written with the narrative power that has made Crittenden one of our most incisive observers of family and culture, Dispatches from Grief brings a journalist's eye to the landscape of loss. For those walking through grief, for those who love someone grieving, and for all who dare imagine how precious and precarious our time together is, this book stands as both singular portrait and universal truth.
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