Hello,
What books or essays have you read post your father’s passing? It can be anything that made you reminisce about your father. Even if it’s incredibly personal to your dad, I want to hear about it!
For example: I read a play recently called The Father by Florian Zeller, which includes the perspective of an elderly father with Alzheimer’s. But I’ve recently thought of re-reading David Foster Wallace’s Consider the lobster, just because my dad loved eating lobster but always felt bad about cooking them.
My father passed earlier this week from ALS, so don’t worry I’ve already read Tuesdays with Morrie lol.
ISO historical-fiction/literary-fiction/memoirs/
by missmolar
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I’m really sorry for your loss, that’s incredibly tough
I picked up “A Grief Observed” by C.S. Lewis after my dad died and it hit different than I expected – Lewis is brutally honest about how messy grief actually is rather than giving you the typical comfort book stuff. Also ended up reading “Big Fish” by Daniel Wallace because my dad was always telling these elaborate stories that may or may not have been true, and that book captures that weird mix of frustration and love you have for a parent who’s larger than life
Hope you find something that helps process everything you’re going through
Sorry for your loss. How We Die by Sherwin Nuland.
I don’t know why but every time I miss my Dad, I will reach for Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being.