Parenting After Suicide is a deeply personal and powerful reflection on what it means to raise children in the wake of devastating loss.
When Erica Richmond’s children were just seven and ten years old, their father died by suicide. In the years that followed, Erica found herself navigating an impossible landscape: helping her children understand grief while still learning how to carry it herself.
This small but powerful book gathers four short creative nonfiction pieces—each written in a different form. A 100-word essay, a visual essay, a dialogue-driven piece, and a hermit crab essay all capture moments from the complicated reality of parenting after loss. Together, they offer an intimate look at the questions, heartbreak, and quiet acts of love that shape life after tragedy.
Honest, raw, and deeply human, Parenting After Suicide does not attempt to tidy grief into easy lessons. Instead, it offers something far more valuable: recognition. For parents navigating loss, for those supporting grieving children, and for anyone who has wondered how families continue after the unthinkable.
This book is part of Erica Richmond’s larger memoir project, Yelling at Dead People, a collection of essays about grief, motherhood, and complicated love.
It is published by Give A Sheet Press. Copies can be purchased and picked up in person at Take Cover Books in Peterborough.
Parenting After Suicide is a deeply personal and powerful reflection on what it means to raise children in the wake of devastating loss.
When Erica Richmond’s children were just seven and ten years old, their father died by suicide. In the years that followed, Erica found herself navigating an impossible landscape: helping her children understand grief while still learning how to carry it herself.
This small but powerful book gathers four short creative nonfiction pieces—each written in a different form. A 100-word essay, a visual essay, a dialogue-driven piece, and a hermit crab essay all capture moments from the complicated reality of parenting after loss. Together, they offer an intimate look at the questions, heartbreak, and quiet acts of love that shape life after tragedy.
Honest, raw, and deeply human, Parenting After Suicide does not attempt to tidy grief into easy lessons. Instead, it offers something far more valuable: recognition. For parents navigating loss, for those supporting grieving children, and for anyone who has wondered how families continue after the unthinkable.
This book is part of Erica Richmond’s larger memoir project, Yelling at Dead People, a collection of essays about grief, motherhood, and complicated love.
It is published by Give A Sheet Press. Copies can be purchased and picked up in person at Take Cover Books in Peterborough.
