The loneliest places : loss, grief, and the long journey home
(Book)

The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson's life after her son's suicide. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. She tells stories from her months fleeing from her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands—as far as possible from the memories of her son. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, helplessly isolated. The tales from these years are bleak and Dickinson's journey home, back to her changed self and fractured family, is lonely. However, she describes how hope was sighted, and then, remarkably, made actual.