Literary
Fantasy
2015
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Published in Spanish as El duelo es esa cosa con alas
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death.
What it is
Learning to live after a loss · properly strange
What happens in it
Living with grief
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Structure
- In fragments
- Who tells it
- Several voices
- Its world
- A touch of the supernatural
- Pulls you in with
- How it's written
- Style
- Literary
- Prose
- Lyrical
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you want a book that understands loss
- how it's written matters to you as much as what happens
- you don't mind a good cry
Maybe not if…
- you prefer a story told in order
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