Section One
Grief Land
Letter from the Smallest State
Narrative Medicine
Death Is Not an Emergency
Preparing to Leave the Hospital: A Beginner's Guide
Dear Joan Didion,
Letter I Don't Know Where to Send
Teaching Hospital
Parallel Grief
Grudges: A Partial List
Letter I May Never Finish
Dear Mark Doty,
Section Two
On days I don't think I'll die of grief,
The angry widows
Holiday Letter
Dear Grief,
Malpractice Letter
User Agreement
Alternate Endings
Dear Joyce Carol Oates,
Discharge Letter
Dear Gail Godwin,
Interment Letter
What are days for?
Section Three
Dear Sandra M. Gilbert,
My dead husband
Grief Logic
Dear Sheryl Sandberg,
My imaginary therapist
Letter Started on My Steering Wheel
Back-to-School Letter
The Offices of Grief
Birthday Letter
Dear Atul Gawande,
Neighborhood News
Letter Started Just Before You'd Been Dead One Full Year, Then Finished Later
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
