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"An unflinching and deeply absorbing memoir of grief and loss, expertly narrated by the author."—Library Journal (Starred Review)
"Crosley’s narration is frank and articulate, a perfect complement to the wit and candor of her prose."—BookPage
"Crosley's fresh imagery and pithy one-liners are delivered with perfect timing."—AudioFile
This program is read by the author.
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship, and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together as they navigated the corridors of office life, the literary world, and the dramatic cultural shifts in New York City. One day, while Russell is still alive, Sloane’s apartment is broken into. Along with her most prized possessions, the thief makes off with her sense of security, leaving a mystery in its place.
When Russell dies exactly one month later, his suicide propels her on a wild quest to right the unrightable, to explore what constitutes family and possession as the city itself faces the staggering toll brought on by the pandemic.
Crosley’s search for truth is frank, darkly funny, and gilded with a resounding empathy. Upending the “grief memoir,” Grief Is for People is the category-defying story of the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it. A modern elegy, it rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief-stricken times.
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Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm. In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond.
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Felt too self indulgent - even for a memoir
- De Kristin H en 09-27-24
De: Leslie Jamison
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- De: Andre Dubus III
- Narrado por: Andre Dubus III
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
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boring
- De Anthony en 11-16-24
De: Andre Dubus III
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Promise
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Narrado por: Imani Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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The Kindred sisters—Ezra and Cinthy—have grown up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful Maine village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the girls hit adolescence, their white neighbors, including Ezra’s best friend, Ruby, start to see their maturing bodies and minds in a different way.
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Powerful!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-14-23
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Grief Is Love
- Living with Loss
- De: Marisa Renee Lee
- Narrado por: Marisa Renee Lee
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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In Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you’ve lost the person recently or long ago—and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines.
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Self-Absorbed Politically-Correct Drivel
- De mf en 09-05-22
De: Marisa Renee Lee
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Cult Classic
- A Novel
- De: Sloane Crosley
- Narrado por: Sloane Crosley
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And...another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger.
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Favorite Author
- De Brittany en 06-13-22
De: Sloane Crosley
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Did I Ever Tell You?
- A Memoir
- De: Genevieve Kingston
- Narrado por: Genevieve Kingston
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s life and each of her birthdays until age thirty.
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Beautiful
- De Paloma M. Lee en 05-25-24
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Liars
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Manguso
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including—a few years later—all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.
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Beautiful
- De Heather Demeter en 08-05-24
De: Sarah Manguso
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
- A Novel
- De: Max Porter
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter.
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Stunningly Creative
- De Rainking en 07-15-21
De: Max Porter
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In Love
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- De: Amy Bloom
- Narrado por: Amy Bloom
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease.
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A helpful,healing memoir
- De Helen en 03-31-22
De: Amy Bloom
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The Days I Loved You Most
- De: Amy Neff
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt, Robert Fass, Ferdelle Capistrano, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores where they were raised, Evelyn and Joseph fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, they have gathered their three grown children to share the staggering news: she has received a heartbreaking diagnosis, and he can't live without her. So in one year's time they will end their love story on their own terms.
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Beautiful story and beautiful descriptive writing! This was amazing.
- De Tamalyn W. Powell en 04-20-25
De: Amy Neff
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The Friday Afternoon Club
- A Family Memoir
- De: Griffin Dunne
- Narrado por: Griffin Dunne
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne’s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good.
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Griffiths phrasing made it easy to listen and absorb.
- De Nancie Keay en 06-17-24
De: Griffin Dunne
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L.A. Woman
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A.; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and that Rudolph Valentino is the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal.
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Flawless take on authentic LA!
- De AM Reader en 05-25-25
De: Eve Babitz
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The Safekeep
- De: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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This One Should Win
- De K. Bella Bestia en 10-13-24
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After Annie
- A Novel
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie.
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Quindlen’s latest
- De Anonymous User en 03-03-24
De: Anna Quindlen
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The Grieving Brain
- The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
- De: Mary-Frances O'Connor
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
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Interesting thoughts
- De GAD en 03-12-22
A good story about living through loss well told
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Beautiful
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Have listened several times
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Spectacular
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Worth it
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The raw feelings and the metaphors for the grief used.
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Creative words
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Yet, this is not a morose book. Russell Perreault sparkles in her remembrances. Ms. Crosley finds a way to honor her friend a nd move through her grief.
Ms. Crosley’s writing just gets better and better.
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Beautiful masterpiece
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Speechless.
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