Claire Bidwell Smith
By the age of 25, Claire Bidwell Smith had lost both of her parents to cancer. In her recently published memoir, THE RULES OF INHERITANCE, Bidwell Smith shares her harrowing experiences, breaking the book down into the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Below she outlines her step-by-step process for how and why she chose to do this.
Claire Bidwell Smith lives in Los Angeles with her husband Greg Boose and their daughter. Claire is an experienced therapist specializing in grief and the author of THE RULES OF INHERITANCE, her new memoir about the death of both her parents when she was a young adult.
This book was reviewed on Bookreporter.com and is one of our Bookreporter.com Bets On picks. In this post, Claire discusses her decision to take a nonlinear approach to her memoir, and she also shares her own experiences with the five Stages of Grief.
