Book description
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Wren’s closest friend, her anchor since childhood, is dead. Stewart Beasley. Gone. She can’t quite believe…
Why read it?
1 author picked Competitive Grieving as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book shows how layered and difficult grief can be, in the most uncomfortable and sometimes taboo ways. While flipping from page to page, you feel like you’re having a talk with your big sister, hearing her uncover things that no one else would be honest enough with you about.
Through her character Wren, this author is honest about how impossible it feels to grieve while also trying to live, as the narrator uncovers parts of her deceased friend she didn’t even know about.
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