The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir - Softcover

"Gritty, poetic, and illuminating." --O Magazine

"A brilliant memoir." --BookReporter

"A powerful, moving memoir of overcoming grief and loss." --Booklist, Starred Review

"Vivid, real and gripping."--Blackbook Magazine

"Forget everything you think you know about grief. Smith's memoir is the most honest book I've ever read about how loss unmoors, challenges and changes you, written in prose so exquisite it could be poetry. Dazzlingly brave and absolutely true." --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

"Gorgeously written, compulsively readable, and heartbreakingly true, The Rules of Inheritance is a small masterpiece of honesty. Anyone who's lost a parent will find themselves in this story. I couldn't stop reading it, and was sorry when it had to end." --Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters

An award-winning blogger and writer for The Huffington Post describes the choices she made at age 14 after she learned that both her parents had terminal cancer and she was going to be alone in the word before reaching adulthood. 40,000 first printing.