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Grief Is for People
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Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this disarmingly witty and poignant memoir. Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship and a book about loss packed with verve for 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 friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
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"With this latest work, she demonstrates that the converse is also true: By attesting to her pain so publicly and poignantly, Crosley again shows her noteworthy literary chops, as well as her unambiguous love for all that's been lost."
"Telling us, with precision and generosity, how it might be when it is our turn to remember what was true about those we've lost."
"By wrangling her complicated friend onto the pages of this elegiac book, Crosley holds onto what she can."
"She bows to no orthodoxy: Grief is as peculiar as the people to whom it appends."
"Crosley can't help but write even the grimmest of explorations with a wit so dry it will make you thirsty ..."
"It is as messy, rollicking and chaotic as life is ..."
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