https://pithybooks.com/tags/grief/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “grief”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/after-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/after-you/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lou grieves Will, falls from a roof, joins a group, and meets Sam and a surprise from Will's past. https://pithybooks.com/books/hello-beautiful/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hello-beautiful/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years. https://pithybooks.com/books/ps-i-love-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/ps-i-love-you/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Widowed at thirty, Holly Kennedy follows ten monthly letters left by her late husband Gerry, facing grief, loving family chaos and slow steps toward a new life in Dublin. https://pithybooks.com/books/spare/ https://pithybooks.com/books/spare/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023 memoir of grief, love and painful family rifts. https://pithybooks.com/books/slammed/ https://pithybooks.com/books/slammed/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them. https://pithybooks.com/books/beartown/ https://pithybooks.com/books/beartown/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In a fading Swedish hockey town, a rape accusation against the junior star splits neighbors, families, and teammates over truth and loyalty. https://pithybooks.com/books/crying-in-h-mart/ https://pithybooks.com/books/crying-in-h-mart/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon. https://pithybooks.com/books/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ https://pithybooks.com/books/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11. https://pithybooks.com/books/just-for-the-summer/ https://pithybooks.com/books/just-for-the-summer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka. https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-bright-places/ https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-bright-places/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Grieving Violet and struggling Finch wander Indiana for a school project and each other. https://pithybooks.com/books/bridge-to-terabithia/ https://pithybooks.com/books/bridge-to-terabithia/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss. https://pithybooks.com/books/all-your-perfects/ https://pithybooks.com/books/all-your-perfects/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now. https://pithybooks.com/books/love-and-other-words/ https://pithybooks.com/books/love-and-other-words/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Childhood friends Macy and Elliot reunite after eleven years apart and face the night that broke them. https://pithybooks.com/books/norwegian-wood/ https://pithybooks.com/books/norwegian-wood/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide. https://pithybooks.com/books/pet-sematary/ https://pithybooks.com/books/pet-sematary/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better. https://pithybooks.com/books/regretting-you/ https://pithybooks.com/books/regretting-you/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both. https://pithybooks.com/books/remarkably-bright-creatures/ https://pithybooks.com/books/remarkably-bright-creatures/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A widowed night janitor, a lost young man, and a grumpy octopus circle the same old loss in a small seaside town. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shack/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shack/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After his daughter's murder, Mack gets a note to return to the shack and spends a weekend questioning God. https://pithybooks.com/books/wild/ https://pithybooks.com/books/wild/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT At 26 Cheryl Strayed hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve and reset. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-man-called-ove/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-man-called-ove/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A grumpy widower plans to end his life after losing his wife, but new neighbors keep interrupting him. Backman blends grief, humor, and community in this beloved 2012 Swedish novel.