The Seven Year Slip
A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.
2,601-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: grief
152 books with this tag.
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The Bodyguard
Hannah Brooks, an executive protection agent grieving her mother, poses as movie star Jack Stapleton's girlfriend on his Texas family ranch.
3,962-word summary · 18 min read
I Know This Much Is True
A housepainter fights to free his schizophrenic twin from a locked ward while a grandfather's memoir and a lost marriage resurface. Long, heavy, hard to forget.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Hamnet
Agnes Hathaway holds her Stratford family together while her husband works in London, until plague takes eleven-year-old Hamnet in 1596.
3,164-word summary · 14 min read
Evermore
Ever Bloom survives the crash that kills her family and meets Damen, whose touch quiets the psychic noise in her head.
3,604-word summary · 16 min read
A Monster Calls
A grieving boy is visited at 12:07 by a yew tree monster whose three tales force his hidden truth about his mother's illness.
3,353-word summary · 15 min read
Spare
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…
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
PS, I Love You
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…
2,501-word summary · 11 min read
Hello Beautiful
Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years.
2,144-word summary · 10 min read
After You
Lou grieves Will, falls from a roof, joins a group, and meets Sam and a surprise from Will's past.
2,031-word summary · 9 min read
Slammed
Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them.
2,793-word summary · 12 min read
Just for the Summer
Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.
3,090-word summary · 14 min read
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
2,999-word summary · 13 min read
Crying in H Mart
Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.
2,337-word summary · 10 min read
Beartown
In a fading Swedish hockey town, a rape accusation against the junior star splits neighbors, families, and teammates over truth and loyalty.
2,201-word summary · 10 min read
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
2,673-word summary · 12 min read
All the Bright Places
Grieving Violet and struggling Finch wander Indiana for a school project and each other.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At 26 Cheryl Strayed hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve and reset.
2,075-word summary · 9 min read
The Shack
After his daughter's murder, Mack gets a note to return to the shack and spends a weekend questioning God.
2,068-word summary · 9 min read
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A widowed night janitor, a lost young man, and a grumpy octopus circle the same old loss in a small seaside town.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
Regretting You
A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both.
2,182-word summary · 10 min read
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
2,158-word summary · 10 min read
Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Love and Other Words
Childhood friends Macy and Elliot reunite after eleven years apart and face the night that broke them.
2,069-word summary · 9 min read