Grief & Bereavement

A Story of Loss and the Hard Work of Carrying Love Forward

Grief does not always behave like an ending. Sometimes it acts more like a ride that refuses to stop: the same drops and turns, the same sickening return to the place where everything irrevocably changed. In the latest entry to his “Life and Living” series, Roller Coasters: The Life Kind,…

BookTribJuly 6, 2026

Nonfiction

A Memoir That Finds Grace in Grief’s Hardest Questions

Early in her book Saying It Out Loud, Amy King learns that grief does not always look like tears. Sometimes it looks like guilt over laughing, guilt over planning, guilt over feeling even a flicker of happiness in a life her husband no longer gets to share. Widowed at age…

BookTribMay 13, 2026

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7 Horror Novels Fueled by Loss and Grief

Grief resists structure. It doesn’t behave the way we expect it to. It’s often described as a process, but that suggests a kind of order that rarely exists in reality. More than just sadness, it’s a messy tangle of yearning, anger, guilt, anxiety, arriving in waves that don’t follow rules…

BookTribMarch 26, 2026

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How Brenda Coffee Turned Trauma into Triumph in Her Memoir Maya Blue

At first glance, Maya Blue reads like a fairytale. An ambitious journalist swept into the glittering world of invention, love, and promise. But as Brenda Coffee’s memoir unfolds, that sheen fractures into something far more harrowing and human. What begins as a story of brilliance and devotion transforms into a…

BookTribOctober 22, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

True-Life Page-Turner About Power, Danger and Finding Your Voice

Brenda Coffee’s Maya Blue recounts a fairytale marriage turned nightmare in a memoir that races along like a thriller. From the infamous “Spy House” in Texas to a terrifying jungle abduction, Coffee’s real-life journey of survival and self-discovery will leave readers breathless and inspired.

BookTribAugust 29, 2025

The Night Garden Of My Mother by Sandra Tyler

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Beautifully Touching and Raw Portrayal of Motherhood, Love and Loss

Few stories shatter my heart as completely as Sandra Tyler’s The Night Garden: Of My Mother — and I absolutely loved it. I couldn’t put this book down. I became so wrapped up in Tyler’s memoir that I found myself crying multiple times, utterly moved by her vivid and heart-wrenching…

Katie BloomerJanuary 29, 2025

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Passion and Pain Bring “Love’s Journey Home”

Someone once told me we have just one truly passionate love in our lives. Sometimes it’s our lifelong partner, but not always. In her memoir, Love’s Journey Home (Atmosphere Press), Gabi Coatsworth puts that theory to the test and ultimately validates it. In many ways, I don’t think Coatsworth’s story…

Valerie Taylor, author of the "Venus Bixby Mystery" seriesMay 9, 2022

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Spouses Confront an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis and a Husband’s Heartbreaking Decision

"Prepare yourself to be heartbroken, expanded, unsettled, and filled with hope." — Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World —∞— In Love (Random House) by Amy Bloom hits all the right notes when it comes to revealing and evoking authentic and true emotions. The author beautifully…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 29, 2022

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The Devastating Loss of a Child Provides One Mother With a Lifetime of Wisdom

“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – James M. Berrie, Peter Pan Searching for Spenser: A Mother's Journey Through Grief (Anamcara Press) by Margaret Kramar opens by telling readers what they can expect to find between its covers; there is no suspenseful moment to the climax, no unforeseen plot…

Kelsey HallOctober 6, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

“My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me:” A Memoir of Love, Loss and Healing

Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her — through a column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Rosenthal, a bestselling children’s author and filmmaker, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern…

BookTribApril 21, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

On Love, Loss and Letting Your Light Shine

Imagine becoming permanent guardians for two kids — a girl and a boy. You raise them for four years as your own, giving them love and encouragement they’d never had. Then you pursue adoption. But instead of officially becoming their parents, they are ripped from your home forever, without the…

K.L. RomoDecember 5, 2019

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Uniquely Bereft: 5 Memorable and Moving Examinations of Loss

Grief certainly isn’t pleasant, but it is something that most of us will have to confront at one point or another. So, when loss inevitably comes knocking at our door, these books, each unique in its approach to the subject, may offer some amount of comfort. Furthermore, if each of…

Chelsea CicconeOctober 26, 2021