Dear Grief: Finding Light in the Darkest Nights

On December 9, 1969, a four-year-old girl watched her father murder her mother. Grief moved in that day and never left.Dear Grief is a memoir written entirely in letters. Across more than fifty years, Tina Pierce writes to the day that took everything, to the parents she lost, to the grandparents who raised her, to the frightened girl she used to be — and to grief itself. Slowly, she begins writing toward the laughter and love that found their way back.Unflinching and luminous by turns, these letters trace one woman's passage through loss, mental illness, and heartbreak toward something that finally resembles peace. Dear Grief is for anyone who has carried sorrow into adulthood and dared to wonder whether the light could return — and whether a door, long closed, might still open. Read more