Recs if you like We All Want Impossible Things...
A Literary Journey Through Grief
Grief as one of the main topics
On grief, grieving, and loss
Ongoing. Fiction and non-fiction exploration of grief: anticipatory, grieving death of a loved one (including pets), loosing pregnancy, etc, and how to live with it.
Short Reads
Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.
long and lovely titles
titles that feel like a poem; not genre-specific
Proof that grief is a universal experience
Books that contain some sort of grief story line. Someone has died, someone is grieving, someone is trying to move forward or find closure. Normalizing grief and proof that it demands to be felt. These are books that could be preferred over "traditional" grief books that can be too heavy and technical on a grieving brain but help a griever feel seen and understand their own grief more.
So You Want A Good Cry
Bring tissues.
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