Best book on grief you’ve read? I’m not looking for a self-help type of book. More for like memoirs or fiction that does a good job portraying grief and what it looks like.
Particularly, if it’s about losing your father or losing a parent in adolescents, or losing a parent in general is fine too.
by mandy1008_
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I really enjoyed memorial days about a writer suddenly losing her husband
Memorial Days https://share.google/kunoSz9K0Rhkvplu8
– The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion
– Notes on grief by Chimamanda Ngozi
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armstrong
[Under the Whispering Door](https://www.amazon.com/Under-Whispering-Door-TJ-Klune-ebook/dp/B0879GPLKD/) by TJ Klune
Have tissues by about Chapter 20 or so…
All the Colors Came Out by Kate Fagan
Fiction:
Ordinary People by Judith Guest (sibling and child death- accident)
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg (mother and wife death – accident and age)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (mother, father, girlfriend – might be more, but that’s what I’m remembering – addiction, accident)
What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky (best friend, child death – accident)
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (father and sister death – suicide)
The Tiny One by Eliza Minot (mother death – accident)
ETA: AMPS is fiction but based on the author’s life
One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read is a kid’s book.
Sad Book by Michael Rosen (a fantastic poet and the UKs children’s lauriet) is about the loss of his son and is absolutely wonderful.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Hua Hsu’s Stay True is incredible, though it’s about losing a friend
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney is about losing a father, the characters are 22 and 32