GRIEF-STRICKEN

In her debut teaching memoir, Grief-Stricken: Stories of Altered Loss in a Pandemic Haze, the author weaves together pieces of painful grief narratives as they are still being constructed by those most impacted, namely the chief mourners. Joys and challenges are shared as the author and her family learn to process the multiple trials that 2020 presented. Their stories show how they endured the initial anguish and are summoning the courage to live forward with remembrance of those they lost: a daughter, a husband, a mother, and a brother. The bereaved, in their own words, bravely provide the reader with an account of perseverance amid tragedy and ultimately aim to bring hope to other grievers in an uncertain world.