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A review by jonscott9
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
5.0
This spare, searing book was right on time for me. My mother's friend had just succumbed to her cancer battle, and a friend's father died unexpectedly as I was reading it. In these pages, Lewis deals with the grief and pain over the loss of his wife, Joy, to cancer. Candid and remarkably clear are his thoughts on grief, death, an afterlife, and faith. He doesn't pretend to know more than he does, nor does he pretend to have more (or less) belief or strength than he does either.
Lewis filled four notebooks and declared his thinking done as it pertained to grief. Those four notebooks comprise the four chapters of this brief but important book. I'm sure other sensitive, sensible books on grief are out there, but this is the best that I've found.
Lewis filled four notebooks and declared his thinking done as it pertained to grief. Those four notebooks comprise the four chapters of this brief but important book. I'm sure other sensitive, sensible books on grief are out there, but this is the best that I've found.