Grief Stalks the 6 O'Clock News

Vivid descriptions of American grief experiences reflect our nation's cultural patterns of loss, grieving, and ultimate recovery. It's close to a script come alive. One can see, hear, and feel what's going on--as if the reader is on Olive's shoulder with a TV camera. "Grief Stalks the 6'Oclock News" feels so authentic it's hard to deny that terrible things happen to good people--good families. The grieving struggle is so long and arduous, yet recovery to a large extent is possible. This book gives us reality plus hopw--the best of all messages. Olive shows us that in the shadow of tragedy we do have choices--to accept help in time of grief and then to move on to console others. In our time of national tragedy, this book needs to be read.