Missing Her: What Grieving Someone I Never Knew Taught Me About Love, Memory, and Loss

Missing Her is a tender reflection on grief, memory, and the surprising ways a familiar public presence can become woven into the story of our own lives. Through memories of growing up in the Tennessee mountains, family traditions, music, movies, recipes, and ordinary moments, Gayla Rogers explores why the loss of someone she never personally knew could still feel deeply personal. Along the way, she discovers that sometimes we are not only grieving a person-we are grieving what that person represented: home, childhood, family, comfort, and a season of life that can never quite be recovered. Missing Her is ultimately a story about the echoes of grief, the people who become landmarks in our memories, and learning to hold gratitude and loss in the same heart.