Binding: Hardcover
Description: One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Time The Washington Post Vogue Vanity Fair Publishers Weekly Paste The Millions Kirkus Reviews Lit Hub Real Simple Nylon Book Page The Story Exchange Sunset and Zibby Mag Disarmingly witty and poignant Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. How do we live without the ones we love? Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and suspenseful portrait of friendship and a book about loss that is profuse with life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief. For most of her adult life Sloane and Russell worked together and played together as they navigated the corridors of office life the literary world and the dramatic cultural shifts in New York City. One day Sloane's apartment is broken into. Along with her most prized possessions the thief makes off with her sense of security leaving a mystery in its place. When Russell dies exactly one month later his suicide propels Sloane on a wild quest to right the unrightable to explore what constitutes family and possession as the city itself faces the staggering toll of the pandemic. Sloane Crosley's search for truth is frank darkly funny and gilded with resounding empathy. Upending the "grief memoir " Grief Is for People is a category - defying story of the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it. A modern elegy it rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief - stricken times.
Title: Grief Is For People
Author(s): Crosley Sloane
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374609849
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/27/2024
Category: Memoirs