Xander ,'End of Days'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I recommend Tear Soup. It's a picture book about grieving, explaining it to children but it's really good for adults too.
The main character has lost someone close (never says who) and it goes to explain that some days are harder than others, and sometimes people don't know what to say to someone who is grieving. it talks about how everyone grieves differently and how it never goes away.
There's also About Alice by Calvin Trillan.
I sobbed all the way through About Alice, because I had read all his books and felt like I knew them.
Madeleine L'Engle's Two-Part Invention, about her marriage and her husband's death, is excellent.
Sarah's Key would definitely work, though parts of it feels very much like a Hallmark movie.
Also The Book Thief. The story is told by Death, but it's about a young girl dealing with the death of her brother.
Yes, The Book Thief ! I knew there had to be a book I knew.
Isn't The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion supposed to be very good?
We read it for book club in 2010, the year we did memoirs and also the year my husband had cancer. I read the first chapter, started sobbing uncontrollably and haven't been able to read any more of it.
I hear that it's very good though!
I haven't read it yet, but Joyce Carol Oates's A Widow's Story looks very good.
I'm now picturing P-C running off and rating The Book Thief on Goodreads. (I think we've created an addict!)
BOOKS.
Oh, wow. A first edition signed copy of To Kill a Mockingbird on Antiques Roadshow.
Even the list of sad books is depressing.