Losing a soul mate is unthinkable. Gayle does what few are courageous enough to do -- she gives words to the silence surrounding death. Her commentary is uncensored and unabridged. Her vocabulary is raw, brutally honest, yet tender, vulnerable and intimate. Heart-wrenching, yes, but filled with insight, emotion, unforgettable images that honor life, love and most of all -- the resilience of the human spirit. Thank you, Gayle Taylor Davis for inviting us into your private world. --Armen Bacon, Co-author of Griefland: An Intimate Portrait of Love, Loss And Unlikely Friendship (Globe Pequot Press, 2012)

When words carry you from page to page surfacing raw emotions settled deep within your gut that is when you know you have come across a most rare book. Gayle Taylor Davis frames the ordinary moments of life with tender poems and reminds us of how precious even the mundane things of life can be when we have lost someone deeply close to our hearts. Gayle's poems will bring you comfort, understating, a sense of awe and an invitation to trust in love even through the muddy rut work of grief. --Rev. Dr. Christopher Breedlove, Pastor of College Community Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

No other book that I've read on grief quite nails the transition from shock to survival to new strength, and, yes, even to happiness that "Grief Sucks" does. It was very difficult to describe the raw pain that grief can cause and all of the feelings that accompany that pain, but Davis does it and gives hope to continue life in the process. --Cindy Abrahamson, RN BSN