Forget Prayers, Bring Cake
A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving

Very validating and a beneficial read to not just the single woman but all cake lovers......more

In the past 5 years both my parents died. This book was helpful as it reminded me that grief takes time (and there is not set time limit) and the comfort of rituals. I find myself giving myself more grace about my own grief and allowing myself to be sad, rather than simply burying my grief & “solder......more

Wonderful read! Our culture doesn't talk a lot about grief, so when we're hit with it we often don't know how to process it. Merissa Nathan Gerson is beautifully honest and genuine and made reading this book feel like I was talking with a friend who "gets it" and has something helpful to say.......more

I read this because I needed to read something with cake in the title. I appreciate that this book doesn’t say you’ll go through these phases and this is how you deal with it. Instead, it mentions how different cultures grieve and how everyone’s grief is different. The book encourages the individual......more

This author had some great tips on how to deal with grieving on a more personal level. Listen to your body and not feeling guilty for ignoring other's advice on how you should handle loss. To each their own.......more