The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick is amazing. It’s speculative fiction that explores how several characters navigate the aftermath of great loss. It’s beautiful and emotional and hopeful without being saccharine.
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
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ordinary people
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Lily and the Octopus, about grief and preemptive grief for a dog.
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*- Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance* by Alison Espach was one of my favorite reads last year. It’s just about a girl working through the death of her older sister as she continues to live. Really loved the writing.
*- All My Puny Sorrows* by Miriam Toews is also great. It’s also about two sisters, one of whom has severe, chronic depression. Also really good writing and excellent beginning to end.
*- Martyr!* by Kaveh Akbar is (IMO) lives up to the reviews big time and is about a man struggling with the loss of his mother at a young age and trying to find meaning in his adult life.
– *The Fisherman* by John Langan is a lovecraftian story that is essentially one long metaphor about grief and loss that I loved (and is outside the genres I normally gravitate towards).
Shark Heart has already been mentioned but just echoing that it really blew me away and took me by surprise as well.
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Tuesdays with Morrie
A Man Called Ove
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The Silver Linings Playbook
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I love *A Dirty Job* by Christopher Moore. It’s a dark comedy fantasy that’s lighthearted and addresses grief in a sweet way
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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Translator by John Crowley
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Hamnet
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The Fisherman by John Langan, about two widowers in upstate New York who bond over their love of fly fishing. Plot twist, it’s a cosmic horror story…but it does have some very poignant insights into the grieving process.
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The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick is amazing. It’s speculative fiction that explores how several characters navigate the aftermath of great loss. It’s beautiful and emotional and hopeful without being saccharine.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
ordinary people
Lily and the Octopus, about grief and preemptive grief for a dog.
*- Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance* by Alison Espach was one of my favorite reads last year. It’s just about a girl working through the death of her older sister as she continues to live. Really loved the writing.
*- All My Puny Sorrows* by Miriam Toews is also great. It’s also about two sisters, one of whom has severe, chronic depression. Also really good writing and excellent beginning to end.
*- Martyr!* by Kaveh Akbar is (IMO) lives up to the reviews big time and is about a man struggling with the loss of his mother at a young age and trying to find meaning in his adult life.
– *The Fisherman* by John Langan is a lovecraftian story that is essentially one long metaphor about grief and loss that I loved (and is outside the genres I normally gravitate towards).
Shark Heart has already been mentioned but just echoing that it really blew me away and took me by surprise as well.
Tuesdays with Morrie
A Man Called Ove
The Silver Linings Playbook
I love *A Dirty Job* by Christopher Moore. It’s a dark comedy fantasy that’s lighthearted and addresses grief in a sweet way
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Translator by John Crowley
Hamnet
The Fisherman by John Langan, about two widowers in upstate New York who bond over their love of fly fishing. Plot twist, it’s a cosmic horror story…but it does have some very poignant insights into the grieving process.