After Effects A News Today

A week after her beloved husband died of cancer, Andrea Gilats found the new silence in her home crushing. "I decided that I would simply resume talking with him, both aloud and in daily letters," she writes in her memoir of grief, "After Effects." And write to him she did, every day, for two years. But it didnt help. The grief that she experienced over her loss was profound, debilitating, life-limiting — and nothing helped.