Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley\'s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
A modern elegy, it rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief-stricken times..
Upending the Grief memoir, Grief Is for People is the category-defying story of the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it.
Crosley\'s search for truth is frank, darkly funny, and gilded with a resounding empathy.
When Russell dies exactly one month later, his suicide propels her on a wild quest to right the unrightable, to explore what constitutes family and possession as the city itself faces the staggering toll brought on by the pandemic.
Along with her most prized possessions, the thief makes off with her sense of security, leaving a mystery in its place.
One day, while Russell is still alive, Sloane\'s apartment is broken into.
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.
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.
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.
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life.
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley\'s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend
