The Best Books on Grief to Give a Friend - Oprah Mag

The Best Books on Grief to Give a Friend: Oprah Mag:

t can be hard to know how to comfort a grieving friend—particularly when grief is so uncomfortable for so many of us. After all, it’s a cultural rule that we expect people to “just get over it,” or “to move on,” phrases that are confusing, and even infuriating, for anyone contemplating loss and finding a new way to exist in the world. Grief is long, intense, unexpected, and sometimes impenetrable—it has its way with you, not the other way around. One salve is to find words that mirror your own experience, and normalize your pain. There’s every type of read below, from memoirs about loss written by both the dying and the bereaved to guidance from those who have helped innumerable people go (and talked to them on the other side).