The weight of sadness (Staff Review) Ann Hood, author of the Knitting circle, has written a different kind of book in Comfort: a journey through grief. The story begins when the authors five-year-old daughter, Grace, dies suddenly after contracting a virulent form of strep throat. In the following months, Hood chronicles her turbulent and heartbreaking journey that follows the ache and emptiness following Graces death. Hood writes simply and with raw intensity: Grief is not linear...it is a jumble. It is hours that are all right, and weeks that are not. It is the weight of sadness making you look different to others and nothing helps. The reader limps along with Hood as she struggles through the pain, but also, almost imperceptibly, to her slow healing. -Marg, Kitchener Public Library