Grief is everywhere. Chances are, either you or someone you know is grieving a loss of some sort right now—loss of health or a job or a person or a pet or a dream or a marriage. If you are grieving, this book will help guide you through the storm. If somebody you love is grieving, it will help you to understand and to help in a way that eases the pain. This book is a portrait of grief unmasked. It gives a rare, poignant, intimate and honest look behind the scenes of grief, and it offers great hope. Perhaps most importantly, it gives permission to grieve in a culture that pressures us to bury grief and get back to business as usual. For Elizabeth Fitch, it was the loss of her father that led her into a depth of grief that shocked her and scared her but ultimately ushered her into a new and joyful freedom. Through letters written to her father during the storm of grief and through reflections written after the storm had subsided, she invites the reader to experience the raw pain of grief as well as the joy that is the surprising fruit of grieving well.