Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome. Hardcover - 2018
by Rebecca Soffer; Gabrielle Birkner
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Inspired by the website hailed as "redefining mourning" by the New York Times, a wise and irreverent collection of essays and tips on navigating grief in the modern age
Let's face it: most of us have a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.
And at a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, when intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are exploring this modern landscape of loss without a road map.
Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they cofounded the website Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and--above all--empathize.
Soffer and Birkner, along with more than forty guest contributors, including rocker Amanda Palmer, CNN's Brian Stelter, and Dr. Lucy Kalanithi (widow of When Breath Becomes Air author Paul Kalanithi), reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics, such as triggers, intimacy, secrets, inheritance, and more. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and witty how-to cartoons, each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message.
Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.
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- Title Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome.
- Author Rebecca Soffer; Gabrielle Birkner
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Wave
- Date 2018-01-23
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780062499189 / 0062499181
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Grief, Loss (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017052727
- Dewey Decimal Code 155.937
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