Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

eBook - 2024

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Esquire, NPR, Elle, Library Journal, LitHub, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bookpage, The Independent, and New StatesmanDisarmingly 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? After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Sloane 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 lit...erary 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... more