Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss

From grief quests to altar-making, to dinner parties to Dungeons & Dragons, Renegade Grief is an “offering to the struggle and art of being human” (Krista Tippett, New York Times bestselling author) and a profound, vulnerable exploration of care practices and rituals that empower grievers in a culture that expects us to simply “give it time.”So, you’ve lost someone.At first, there is an outpour of support and phone calls and care packages.But after the services are done and the phone stops ringing, there is a quiet in the air and an expectation to get on with your life.The problem is that death has a way of making all plans go out the window.Renegade Grief offers the support in this next stage of grieving-when you feel isolated in your loss and are figuring out how to navigate it. Shaped by her own experience with the death of her father and her time cofounding The Dinner Party, a leading peer-support organization for people who’ve experienced a major loss, Carla Fernandez pushes back