Dolores Carruthers' inspirational new grief memoir, "A Vow Made True-From Despair to Hope After the Death of A Son," exposes a mother's raw emotion as she works through the accidental death of an adult child. She makes a vow that she will experience what needs to be felt. In doing so she learns that she must live her own answer to grief-that we can't control those bad things that happen to us, but we can control how we respond. She salvages the pieces of her prior life, rearranging them in ways that make sense and thus provides a way toward the future.