I had a lot of people tell me I should write a book about grief, but for a long, long time it was just this big abstract idea. How do you even write a book about the death of a child? It's such a big experience that is enmeshed with every single aspect of your life. Who would you even be writing it for, and how would you organize it to make it worthwhile for anyone else to read?

Then one day I was talking to a cousin who is known to have dreams that sometimes mean something…