The 8 books on this stack
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Max Porter 2015
Why it's on the stack
A farewell that moves you · properly strange
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death.
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Sonali Deraniyagala 2013
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · learning to live after a loss
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec.
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Michelle Zauner 2020
Why it's on the stack
It makes you cry, in a good way · learning to live after a loss
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up dual-heritage, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity.
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Helen Macdonald 2006
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · one to read slowly
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Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People).
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C. S. Lewis 1961
Why it's on the stack
A farewell that moves you · learning to live after a loss
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In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children.
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Julian Barnes 2013
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · comforting, like coming home
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Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an…
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Meghan O'Rourke 2011
Why it's on the stack
A farewell that moves you · it restores your faith in people
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What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief?
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Joan Didion 2005
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · learning to live after a loss
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One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at…