{"product_id":"after-effects-a-memoir-of-complicated-grief-9781517912185","title":"After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To grieve after a profound loss is perfectly natural and healthy. To be debilitated by grief for more than a decade, as Andrea Gilats was, is something else. In her candid, deeply moving, and ultimately helpful memoir of breaking free of death's relentless grip on her life, Gilats tells her story of living with prolonged, or \"complicated,\" grief and offers insight, hope, and guidance to others who suffer as she did. \u003cp\u003eThomas Dayton, Andrea Gilats's husband of twenty years, died at 52 after a five-month battle with cancer. In\u003ci\u003e After Effects\u003c\/i\u003e Gilats describes the desolation that followed and the slow and torturous twenty-year journey that brought her back to life. In the two years immediately following his death, Gilats wrote Tom daily letters, desperately trying to maintain the twenty-year conversation of their marriage. Excerpts from these letters reveal the depth of her despair but also the glimmer of an awakening as they also trace a different, more typical course of the grief experienced by one of Gilats's colleagues, also widowed. Gilats's struggle to rescue herself takes her through the temptation of suicide, the threat of deadly illness, the overwhelming challenges of work, and the rigor of learning and eventually teaching yoga, to a moment of reckoning and, finally, reconciliation to a life without her beloved partner. Her story is informed by the lessons she learned about complicated grief as a disorder that, while intensely personal, can be defined, grappled with, and overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough complicated grief affects as many as one in seven of those stricken by the loss of a close loved one, it is little known outside professional circles. \u003ci\u003eAfter Effects\u003c\/i\u003e points toward a path of recuperation and provides solace along the way--a service and a comfort that is all the more timely and necessary in our pandemic-ravaged world of loss and isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517912185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Andrea Gilats","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261855932597,"sku":"9781517912185","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8c106f3b-d6d3-4571-9d55-6dde307386f8.jpg?v=1634653016","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/after-effects-a-memoir-of-complicated-grief-9781517912185","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}