"My name is already carved on a headstone. Somehow there's just no way to unsee that, y'know?"
When Jennifer Raulerson lost her husband, Scott, without warning at only 49, grief didn't simply break her heart. It disrupted her sense of time, identity, and purpose, shook her faith, and destroyed the future she thought she understood.
Suddenly she was living on the other side of everything they'd planned - their marriage, their future, their ordinary routines, their private jokes - and eventually, quite literally, the other side of a headstone bearing both their names.
His has two dates beneath it.
Hers has one.
The Other Side of the Headstone is Jennifer's gritty, unfiltered account of what happened in the space that followed. Drawn from words written while grief was actually happening, this isn't a tidy retrospective about overcoming loss. It's life inside grief - devastating, bewildering, sometimes funny when it probably shouldn't be, deeply human, and stubbornly still alive.
And beneath the questions, anger, longing, tears, and silence runs a thread Jennifer chose to cling tightly to long before she could come close to feeling like it was true:
Her story was not over. God was already in the outcome.
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"My name is already carved on a headstone. Somehow there's just no way to unsee that, y'know?"
When Jennifer Raulerson lost her husband, Scott, without warning at only 49, grief didn't simply break her heart. It disrupted her sense of time, identity, and purpose, shook her faith, and destroyed the future she thought she understood.
Suddenly she was living on the other side of everything they'd planned - their marriage, their future, their ordinary routines, their private jokes - and eventually, quite literally, the other side of a headstone bearing both their names.
His has two dates beneath it.
Hers has one.
The Other Side of the Headstone is Jennifer's gritty, unfiltered account of what happened in the space that followed. Drawn from words written while grief was actually happening, this isn't a tidy retrospective about overcoming loss. It's life inside grief - devastating, bewildering, sometimes funny when it probably shouldn't be, deeply human, and stubbornly still alive.
And beneath the questions, anger, longing, tears, and silence runs a thread Jennifer chose to cling tightly to long before she could come close to feeling like it was true:
Her story was not over. God was already in the outcome.
Free shipping for Prime Members. Also available on Kindle SOON - preorder eBook version available now. Will automatically download to your account on release date.
