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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, one of Vogue, Esquire, W, and Real Simple's Best Books of the Year So Far, and one of The Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste,…

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1 author picked Grief Is for People as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I opened this book while browsing at my local library, read one sentence and was hooked. It's always voice that pulls me into memoir and Crosley's is authentic and compelling. Also, she's so smart and thoughtful. If it wasn't a library book, my copy would be filled with underlines and asterisks for all the times she nailed an emotion, floored me with an insight, or led me to think about something in a new way.

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