What made you write a book about grief? 
Two reasons...When I started writing The Things They Didn't See, my dad had recently passed away and the different ways everyone grieved impacted me. (He had adult children, young teenage children from a second marriage, a youngish wife and many, many close friends and we have a large extended family.)  I was putting myself in everyone's shoes which made for a very compelling narrative.
Additionally, two of my four children were in college and my two other ...