Andrea Gilats
Andrea (Andy) Gilats, Ph.D., is a writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher who has written two highly praised books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age (Ulysses Press, 2015). Her most recent book, Radical Endurance: Truths and Transformations While Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2024.
Andy spent more than three decades creating and leading lifelong learning programs at the University of Minnesota, serving for twenty of those years as the founding director of the legendary Split Rock Arts Program, and later, creating and directing two pioneering programs for older adults, LearningLife and Encore Transitions: Preparing for Post-Career Life. From 2011 to 2018, she taught yoga to older adults through her community-based teaching practice, Third Age Yoga, but now devotes her full time to her writing.
INTRODUCING
After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief
An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief.
February 15, 2022
University of Minnesota Press
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INTRODUCING
After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief
An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief.
February 15, 2022
University of Minnesota Press
Available for pre-order now!
order from SubText Books, St. Paul Minnesota’s favorite independent bookseller
order from your nearest independent bookseller through indiebound
order from Amazon
order from Barnes & Noble
Featured News & Press:
Listen to Andy’s podcast interview with Gloria and Heidi Horsley of Open to Hope
With more than two million visitors per month, Open to Hope is a sought-after website for sharing our stories of loss, grief, and healing.
“I lived with that acute, prolonged grief for almost a decade.”
Andy was honored to be featured in “What is Prolonged Grief Disorder?,” award-winning health writer Erin Boyle’s excellent article for HealthCentral. This thoroughly researched article combines expert information about grief gone awry with the tragic stories of two women, one of whom is Andy, who suffered from prolonged, debilitating grief.
Reviews of After Effects
Andrea Gilats has given us a beautifully written story of the heartbreaking problem of complicated grief… Her detailed, honest account of almost two decades of intense suffering after the loss of her beloved life partner will help others understand that there is no shame in grieving this way—that grief is a form of love.
—Katherine Shear, M.D., founding director, Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief
In this illuminating, thoughtful and beautifully written memoir, [Andrea] Gilats takes us on her journey as she experienced, for 10 years, prolonged or “complicated” grief. …When you finish the last paragraph you are going to think, “I’d like to meet this woman.”
—Mary Ann Grossmann, books editor, St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Gilats’ story of loss, despair and eventual peace is a roadmap of despair and recovery. …A brave memoir indeed!
—Laurie Hertzel, books editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Books bring meaning to our lives at times when we most need to feel that we are not alone.
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