Books & LiteratureGrief, notes reviewer Moira Macdonald, "is a strange, disorienting experience, one that you can’t comprehend until it happens to you, and one that doesn’t come with a set of rules." In the memoir "A Living Remedy," Nicole Chung writes about losing her father, her grandmother and her mother within two years — the latter two, in two months. And she writes about how the experience has changed her.