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Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
by Ann Hood
I think that I probably read this book too quickly. It only took a few hours to get read, so maybe I did not linger over it for enough time. Still, I have to give Ms. Hood a lot of credit. She is honest with her grief . . . it takes her years to clean out Grace's room, she leaves items of Grace's around the house and still uses them for comfort.
While only individuals who have dealt with the loss of a child can ever really understand what Hood experienced, many of her observations are accurate for people who have dealt with extreme grief. I will admit that I was more fascinated at the beginning of the book than at the end. The beginning was raw and propelled me to the middle of this book, but by the end, when Hood adopts a child from China, she seemed suddenly healed. I know that she was not healed suddenly, but the shortness of the book makes it appear as though she was grieving and then she was not grieving quite as much.
I loved her husband, Lorne, because he seemed more grounded and down to Earth than Hood. Still, she deserves praise for writing down what she felt and publishing it for the world to read. This is a great book for a quick read between bigger tomes.
While only individuals who have dealt with the loss of a child can ever really understand what Hood experienced, many of her observations are accurate for people who have dealt with extreme grief. I will admit that I was more fascinated at the beginning of the book than at the end. The beginning was raw and propelled me to the middle of this book, but by the end, when Hood adopts a child from China, she seemed suddenly healed. I know that she was not healed suddenly, but the shortness of the book makes it appear as though she was grieving and then she was not grieving quite as much.
I loved her husband, Lorne, because he seemed more grounded and down to Earth than Hood. Still, she deserves praise for writing down what she felt and publishing it for the world to read. This is a great book for a quick read between bigger tomes.