Dispatches from Grief

On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden received the devastating news that her 32-year-old daughter Miranda had been found dead in her Brooklyn apartment.

In this extraordinary memoir, Crittenden maps the landscape of sudden loss with a journalist's precision and a mother's heart, weaving intimate family moments with meditations on mortality, parenthood, and finding grace amid catastrophe.

Written with luminous prose, dark humor, and raw candor, it offers companionship to those who have loved deeply and lost profoundly, filling a gap in grief literature about losing an adult child.