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10 best books like The Long Goodbye (Meghan O'Rourke): She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, The Still Point of the Turning World, Here If You Need Me, A Widow's Story, Making Toast, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, The Mercy Papers, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, What I Thought I Knew, Epilogue: A Memoir

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
AuthorHaven Kimmel
In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for...
The Still Point of the Turning World
AuthorEmily Rapp
ISBN1594205124
Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan.  He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun.  He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father.  He would be an avid skier like his mother.  Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages...
Here If You Need Me
AuthorKate Braestrup
ISBN0316066303
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
A Widow's Story
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0062015532
Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book...
Making Toast
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica,...
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
AuthorAnn Hood
“Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” —Entertainment Weekly

In 2002, Ann Hood's five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none...
The Mercy Papers
AuthorRobin Romm
ISBN1416567887
Read this one in less than a night. Couldn't put it down. I think some people might think it masochistic, but there's something deeply comforting about reading a story that feels so much like my own story - different details, yet same confusing, wrenching struggle. And in the end, she gives good advice...
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
AuthorElizabeth McCracken
ISBN0316027677
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...
What I Thought I Knew
AuthorAlice Eve Cohen
ISBN0670020958
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible

At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming....
Epilogue: A Memoir
AuthorAnne Roiphe
ISBN0061254622
From Anne Roiphe, the critically acclaimed author of Fruitful, comes the New York Times bestselling Epilogue, a beautiful memoir about death, life, and widowhood. Roiphe explores what happened when, at age 70, she lost her husband of 40 years. Moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage...
The Rules of Inheritance
AuthorClaire Bidwell Smith
ISBN1594630887
Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. "I've already come to the conclusion that I will probably be parentless by the time I am thirty," Claire writes in her powerful debut.

As her mother...
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
AuthorHope Edelman
ISBN0738210269
An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for...
About Alice
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN1400066158
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.”...
Shelter Me
AuthorJuliette Fay
ISBN0061673390
In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness...and help that arrives from unexpected sources

Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning...
Half a Life
AuthorDarin Strauss
ISBN1934781703
Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."

So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate...
A History of the Present Illness
AuthorLouise Aronson
ISBN1608198308
A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today. An elderly Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wife's well-being...
The Two Kinds of Decay
AuthorSarah Manguso
ISBN0374280126
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life...
The Iceberg
AuthorMarion Coutts
ISBN1782393501
In 2008, Marion Coutts' husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that he had not more than two years to live. The tumour was located in the area of the brain that controls speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. Tom was 53 when he died,...
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