Grief Is for People

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editors' Choice A TIME TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK AND MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024 * A NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2024 * AN OPRAH DAILY BEST BOOK OF 2024 * AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2024 * AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF 2024 * A LITHUB BEST NONFICTION TITLE OF 2024 * LITHUB'S #1 BEST REVIEWED NONFICTION TITLE OF 2024 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.