Grief happens to everyone, and it cannot be ignored or denied. After a loved one dies, clarity of thought becomes elusive, life may feel empty, and grief surges and ebbs so persistently. Taking examples from literature, music, paleoarchaeology, personal experience, memoirs, and patient narratives, psychologist Dorothy Holinger describes what happens in the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved. Holinger also shows how to move through the grieving process and how understanding grief in more multidimensional ways can help quell sorrow and allow life to be lived again with joy.