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Sloane Crosley: Grief Is for People (2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) No rating

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death …

I would have been ok with not reading this. It was somewhat interesting at the start, but just dragged on for so long with random thoughts on experiencing covid while living in NYC, and her stressing about her jewelry being stolen and connecting this to her friend’s death. I also should have counted how many Joan Didion quotes were in the book. Grief is heavy so I’m also not trying to judge how someone experiences it, but also just didn’t get much out of this book.