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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

The Other Side of Grief

Elizabeth Fitch · 2017
68/100
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Elizabeth Fitch writes with real honesty and earned vulnerability — the letter-to-her-father structure gives the book genuine emotional texture, and the faith-informed movement toward hope rather than resignation is a meaningful distinction from generic grief writing. The limitations are real: no major publisher, no independent editorial vetting, and a personal scope that may feel too narrow for readers in a different kind of grief. But for readers who want permission to mourn openly within a spiritual framework, it may be exactly the right book.

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