Can anyone recommend me a book that involves dealing with death, grievance and loss?
I guess you’re looking for fiction? John Irving’s “Until I Find You” deals with a woman trying to find the man she loves and has a child with by floating to different tattoo parlors asking questions about him. He’s a tattoo artist. It’s long but it deal with her grief of him leaving her as well as the boy’s grief on chasing a ghost, so to speak. Marilynne Robinson’s “Home” deals with a family mostly losing a son due to alcoholism although he is home during the story. They’re also dealing with that son’s child they helped care for until he died and their combination grief and anger. My “Finishing Touches” deals with a young widow who lost her husband to cancer just after their son was born. It’s an ebook download at Smashwords.com and a fairly short read. Ernest Hemingway’s “Islands in the Stream” is about an artist turned war privateer who loses his sons. “The Student Conductor” by Robert Ford covers loss through the Berlin Wall separation. “The Gravedigger’s Daughter” by Joyce Carol O
