In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

From the Washington Post: 

The title comes from a line by Camus, who knew something about the oscillations of joy and sadness himself: “In the midst of winter,” he wrote, “I finally found there was within me an invincible summer.” That’s an inspiring sentiment, a hopeful promise to those in darkness and a truism for anyone who has emerged from it stronger. But the challenge for a novelist is how to convey that gospel without trivializing life’s horrors or falsifying the possibilities of happiness.

Really captures the heart of this story, which I really enjoyed so much!  This is a book about unlocking grief and it does it so well. Each of the three characters has its own grief and they are vastly different characters, but all richly developed in the book through their stories that are told over a short period of time, within the context of this "caper." The caper being getting rid of a dead body; sounds crazy but it's all pretty believable when you read this fabulous book!