Book: This Angel On My Chest, Leslie Pietrzyk
Creative Grief. Two words you don’t often see paired
together.
Leslie Pietrzyk’s book is a
collection of stories based on the real events of her husband’s death at age 37
to a heart attack, but it’s told in the guise of fiction. She speaks about the
concerns of grief in 16 different ways using an assortment of characters. Each story presents one hard truth about grief.
Making the account fictional
frees Pietrzyk to add in details that she wished had happened and include dialogue
that she wished people had said that would have helped her explain her grief to others better.
