A composed and clear-eyed look at grief and the ways modern American culture does not deal with it or allow an individual to deal with it. As Brooks found, many of our systems and bureaucracies actively make grieving worse and more traumatic. Brooks manages to share her own personal tragedy and make it universal. 

I would recommend this to everyone, particularly the simple directives at the end, urging everyone to keep track of all the things they do for their households, that their loved ones will be forced to pick up in the wake of their loss. 

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy.