My instinct when this happened was to write about it.

I didn't have an audience in mind.

It wasn't like keeping a journal.

It was being in this space that you never expected to be in.

Losing a child, which is the reverse order of the universe.

The worst thing possible.

The worst thing possible.

It felt like I had been, what I call the alternative universe, I'd been transferred from a

completely normal life, because her death was very sudden, overnight to this cataclysmic

fact and unchangeable fact.

Hi, everyone, I'm Katie Couric, and this is next question.

On the morning of February 16th, 2024, Danielle Crittenden and her husband, journalist David

Frum, received a phone call that would forever divide their lives into before and after.

Their oldest daughter, daughter Miranda had died suddenly

from complications related to a rare brain tumor that had been removed five years earlier.

What followed was a journey into an alternate universe, a place known only to those who have

lost a child. She likens it to a meteor crashing into your

personal galaxy, where the world as you knew it is destroyed forever. And her new memoir

dispatches from grief, a mother's journey through the unthinkable. Crittenden chronicles the

days and months that followed Miranda's death, the relentless suffering

of remaining alive, and the way grief reshapes your life, your identity, and what it means

to continue living.

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