Grieving: A Beginner's Guide provides a compassionate and insightful guide to navigating the complex journey of grief. It details all that comes with bereavement and offers practical advice for those who are accompanying grieving individuals.

Jerusha Hull McCormack emphasizes that there is no sure route through grieving. Instead, she provides a series of signposts to help readers find their own path to a new life. As she writes, "We are all amateurs at grief; it comes to us all; we must all go through it. To treat grief as a problem to be fixed, or (worse still) to medicalize it, is to rob us of the extraordinary privilege of encountering this experience on our terms. Each of us has our own way of grieving, and each of us has something special to learn from the process."

This book is designed to help those in pain—and specifically those who have lost someone through death—to imagine the path before them. It is a path of suffering, but it is also a path that may lead to unexpected discoveries and peace.