{ "item_title" : "The Grief That Grows Us", "item_author" : [" Nora Rivers "], "item_description" : "The smell of sawdust stops you cold in the hardware store. A teenage employee in an orange apron asks if you need medical attention. You can't explain that you're looking for a version of reality where he's still alive-where the floor hasn't dropped out, where you didn't learn to survive on emotional rations. Some grief has no funeral. No casseroles. No sympathy cards. This is the grief of watching your father start a second, better family on social media. Of feeling profound relief when the volatile man finally dies. Of realizing the love you keep settling for is just an echo of what you learned at his silent dinner table.Nora Rivers wrote the book she couldn't find when her own world collapsed in aisle seven of a suburban Lowe's. Not a clinical guide with cheerful coping strategies. A book about the storm that ambushes you when you're just trying to buy screws on a Tuesday. About how the father wound reaches its cold fingers into every romantic choice you make, dictating who you love and what bare minimums you accept. Inside, you'll discover: - Why you keep choosing men who ration their warmth in unpredictable droplets-and how to spot the locked vault before you waste years trying to pick it- The difference between floating and thrashing in the deep water of grief, and why moving on is a violent myth- How to build sacred containers for your ghosts so your loss stops ambushing you in grocery store aisles- The specific moment your tolerance for half-measures evaporates-and why that loss of illusion is actually pure growth- Why healthy love feels terrifyingly boring when you're used to chaos, and how to trust the quiet without picking fights Written with the fierce, protective love of someone who has waded through her own suffocating grief, this book refuses toxic positivism and thirty-day cures. It sits with you in the hardest, ugliest parts of the room. It maps exactly what you're carrying, where it originated, and what it might feel like to finally put that dead weight down. You don't move on. You move forward-carrying every shard, forging it into armor, and learning that the grief doesn't shrink. You simply grow larger than it.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/825/551/9798255513758_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "6.99", "online_price" : "6.99", "our_price" : "6.99", "club_price" : "6.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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