“Three Times a Mourner is a gift—unflinchingly honest, courageous, and intimate, opening the way for readers to access their own pain. It reveals the damaging, though perhaps well-intentioned, shielding of Maister as a child confronted with the sudden death of her father, the first of her three significant losses. And it poignantly underscores the lesson of how critical it is to grieve our deep losses, openly and frequently, as they resurface again and again.”