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🕊️ First Loss

The devastating initiation into grief, when death or profound loss enters a life for the first time and nothing afterward looks quite the same.
A Heart That Works
by Rob Delaney • 2022
Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.
4.62
35k+
🕯️ Child Loss💔 Parental Grief🏥 Medical Memoir
A Heart That Works Summary
A Heart That Works 87%
Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.
by Rob Delaney 2022
4.62
35k+ ratings
🕯️ Child Loss💔 Parental Grief🏥 Medical Memoir
The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin • 2015
After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.
4.10
45k+
🔬 Young Scientist🤫 Chosen Silence💔 Grieving A Friend
The Thing About Jellyfish Summary
The Thing About Jellyfish 87%
After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.
by Ali Benjamin 2015
4.10
45k+ ratings
🔬 Young Scientist🤫 Chosen Silence💔 Grieving A Friend
Looking for Alaska
by John Green • 2005
A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.
3.96
1.8M+
🏫 Boarding School Fiction💔 Tragic First Love🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Looking for Alaska Summary
Looking for Alaska 87%
A boarding school boy obsessed with last words meets a brilliant girl already writing hers.
by John Green 2005
3.96
1.8M+ ratings
🏫 Boarding School Fiction💔 Tragic First Love🌪️ Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Labors of Hercules Beal
by Gary D. Schmidt • 2023
A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.
4.48
8k+
🏫 School Project Story💔 Loss Of Parents📚 Mentor Teacher
The Labors of Hercules Beal Summary
The Labors of Hercules Beal 87%
A grieving boy named Hercules is assigned the hero's twelve labors as a seventh-grade project.
by Gary D. Schmidt 2023
4.48
8k+ ratings
🏫 School Project Story💔 Loss Of Parents📚 Mentor Teacher
You've Reached Sam
by Dustin Thao • 2021
After Sam dies, Julie calls his phone just to hear his voicemail. He picks up.
3.61
178k+
🥀 First Love💔 Teen Grief🌧️ Bittersweet Romance
You've Reached Sam Summary
You've Reached Sam 87%
After Sam dies, Julie calls his phone just to hear his voicemail. He picks up.
by Dustin Thao 2021
3.61
178k+ ratings
🥀 First Love💔 Teen Grief🌧️ Bittersweet Romance
This Is All
by Aidan Chambers • 2005
Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.
4.31
2k+
📖 Diary Format Novel📚 Literary YA💕 First Love
This Is All Summary
This Is All 87%
Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.
by Aidan Chambers 2005
4.31
2k+ ratings
📖 Diary Format Novel📚 Literary YA💕 First Love
Lost & Found
by Kathryn Schulz • 2022
A father lost, a wife found: the discovery that grief and joy are not opposites.
4.11
10k+
🕊️ Grief And Mourning🔍 Loss And Finding❤️ Romantic Love
Lost & Found Summary
Lost & Found 86%
A father lost, a wife found: the discovery that grief and joy are not opposites.
by Kathryn Schulz 2022
4.11
10k+ ratings
🕊️ Grief And Mourning🔍 Loss And Finding❤️ Romantic Love
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li • 2025
The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.
4.34
15k+
👼 Child Loss🖤 Suicide Loss🌀 Grief Without Closure
Things in Nature Merely Grow Summary
Things in Nature Merely Grow 86%
The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.
by Yiyun Li 2025
4.34
15k+ ratings
👼 Child Loss🖤 Suicide Loss🌀 Grief Without Closure
More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera • 2015
After his father's suicide, a teen turns to memory erasure, until a boy changes everything.
3.95
69k+
🧠 Memory Erasure🏳️‍🌈 Queer Awakening💕 First Love
More Happy Than Not Summary
More Happy Than Not 86%
After his father's suicide, a teen turns to memory erasure, until a boy changes everything.
by Adam Silvera 2015
3.95
69k+ ratings
🧠 Memory Erasure🏳️‍🌈 Queer Awakening💕 First Love
Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira • 2014
A grieving freshman writes letters to dead icons, searching for a voice after her sister's death.
3.78
93k+
🖋️ Epistolary Novel💔 Sister Grief✍️ Healing Through Letters
Love Letters to the Dead Summary
Love Letters to the Dead 86%
A grieving freshman writes letters to dead icons, searching for a voice after her sister's death.
by Ava Dellaira 2014
3.78
93k+ ratings
🖋️ Epistolary Novel💔 Sister Grief✍️ Healing Through Letters
Le Garçon qui voulait courir vite
by Pierre Bottero • 2002
Her brother stopped speaking when their father died. Some things even a fierce sister cannot fix.
4.06
136
🖤 Childhood Grief💔 Trauma And Recovery👧 Protective Older Sister
Le Garçon qui voulait courir vite Summary
Le Garçon qui voulait courir vite 86%
Her brother stopped speaking when their father died. Some things even a fierce sister cannot fix.
by Pierre Bottero 2002
4.06
136 ratings
🖤 Childhood Grief💔 Trauma And Recovery👧 Protective Older Sister
I Fell in Love With Hope
by Lancali • 2022
They are collectors of moments, four terminally ill teens reclaiming life from death's waiting room.
3.81
34k+
🏥 Sick Lit🫂 Found Family🌈 Gay Coming Of Age
I Fell in Love With Hope Summary
I Fell in Love With Hope 86%
They are collectors of moments, four terminally ill teens reclaiming life from death's waiting room.
by Lancali 2022
3.81
34k+ ratings
🏥 Sick Lit🫂 Found Family🌈 Gay Coming Of Age
Ashes of Life
by Erica Lucke Dean • 2015
After her parents' sudden death, a grieving teen is trapped living with the stepmother she resents.
4.07
1k+
🪦 Parental Loss🏠 Found Family💔 Destructive Coping
Ashes of Life Summary
Ashes of Life 86%
After her parents' sudden death, a grieving teen is trapped living with the stepmother she resents.
by Erica Lucke Dean 2015
4.07
1k+ ratings
🪦 Parental Loss🏠 Found Family💔 Destructive Coping
If Only I Had Told Her
by Laura Nowlin • 2024
Childhood best friends. A long-awaited confession. Then a car crash that leaves one of them behind.
3.85
210k+
👫 Childhood Friends To Lovers💔 Tragic Ya Romance🤫 Secret Pining
If Only I Had Told Her Summary
If Only I Had Told Her 86%
Childhood best friends. A long-awaited confession. Then a car crash that leaves one of them behind.
by Laura Nowlin 2024
3.85
210k+ ratings
👫 Childhood Friends To Lovers💔 Tragic Ya Romance🤫 Secret Pining
Loss
by John Bowlby • 1979
Grief's biological roots: an instinct to search, and the lasting damage of suppressing it.
4.16
173
🔗 Attachment Theory🕯️ Bereavement🔄 Mourning Phases
Loss Summary
Loss 86%
Grief's biological roots: an instinct to search, and the lasting damage of suppressing it.
by John Bowlby 1979
4.16
173 ratings
🔗 Attachment Theory🕯️ Bereavement🔄 Mourning Phases
Pearl
by Siân Hughes • 2023
A mother vanishes, leaving her daughter folk songs, rituals, and an unanswerable question.
3.84
7k+
🕯️ Missing Mother🖤 Inherited Grief🌿 Folk Grief Rituals
Pearl Summary
Pearl 86%
A mother vanishes, leaving her daughter folk songs, rituals, and an unanswerable question.
by Siân Hughes 2023
3.84
7k+ ratings
🕯️ Missing Mother🖤 Inherited Grief🌿 Folk Grief Rituals
All Those Things We Never Said
by Marc Levy • 2008
Her dead father returns as an android: six days of battery, a lifetime of silence to undo.
3.87
15k+
🖤 Estranged Parent💔 Lost First Love✨ Speculative Romance
All Those Things We Never Said Summary
All Those Things We Never Said 86%
Her dead father returns as an android: six days of battery, a lifetime of silence to undo.
by Marc Levy 2008
3.87
15k+ ratings
🖤 Estranged Parent💔 Lost First Love✨ Speculative Romance
Death and the Gardener
by Georgi Gospodinov • 2024
A son tends his dying father, a gardener, finding that stories root where words cannot.
4.44
13k+
🕯️ Parental Loss🪢 Father-Son Bond🏥 Terminal Illness
Death and the Gardener Summary
Death and the Gardener 86%
A son tends his dying father, a gardener, finding that stories root where words cannot.
by Georgi Gospodinov 2024
4.44
13k+ ratings
🕯️ Parental Loss🪢 Father-Son Bond🏥 Terminal Illness
The Tiger Rising
by Kate DiCamillo • 2001
A grieving boy, a caged tiger, and a fierce girl who believes both should run free.
3.84
33k+
✒️ Lyrical Middle Grade🖤 Childhood Grief🤝 Unlikely Friendship
The Tiger Rising Summary
The Tiger Rising 86%
A grieving boy, a caged tiger, and a fierce girl who believes both should run free.
by Kate DiCamillo 2001
3.84
33k+ ratings
✒️ Lyrical Middle Grade🖤 Childhood Grief🤝 Unlikely Friendship
Guitar Notes
by Mary Amato • 2012
A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.
4.04
6k+
🎵 Musical Coming Of Age🎻 Opposites Attract📝 Secret Friendship
Guitar Notes Summary
Guitar Notes 86%
A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.
by Mary Amato 2012
4.04
6k+ ratings
🎵 Musical Coming Of Age🎻 Opposites Attract📝 Secret Friendship
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami • 1987
Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.
3.99
739k+
🖤 Melancholy Romance💔 Survivor'S Guilt🕯️ Grief And Intimacy
Norwegian Wood Summary
Norwegian Wood 86%
Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.
by Haruki Murakami 1987
3.99
739k+ ratings
🖤 Melancholy Romance💔 Survivor'S Guilt🕯️ Grief And Intimacy
On Midnight Beach
by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick • 2020
A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.
3.84
716
📖 Irish Myth Retelling⚔️ Small Town Rivalry💔 Tragic First Love
On Midnight Beach Summary
On Midnight Beach 86%
A dolphin unites teenagers in a 1970s Irish town, where love ignites and old hatreds wait.
by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 2020
3.84
716 ratings
📖 Irish Myth Retelling⚔️ Small Town Rivalry💔 Tragic First Love
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman • 2009
Outside her body after the crash, a teenage cellist watches her boyfriend beg her to stay.
3.91
972k+
🫥 Out-Of-Body Perspective🎻 Musician Protagonist⚖️ Life Or Death Choice
If I Stay Summary
If I Stay 86%
Outside her body after the crash, a teenage cellist watches her boyfriend beg her to stay.
by Gayle Forman 2009
3.91
972k+ ratings
🫥 Out-Of-Body Perspective🎻 Musician Protagonist⚖️ Life Or Death Choice
The Name of the World
by Denis Johnson • 2000
A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.
3.55
3k+
🏛️ Campus Novel💔 Widower Protagonist🌧️ Quiet Melancholy
The Name of the World Summary
The Name of the World 86%
A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.
by Denis Johnson 2000
3.55
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Campus Novel💔 Widower Protagonist🌧️ Quiet Melancholy
Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume • 2005
After her father's murder, a girl moves to the desert and finds healing with a stranger.
3.92
19k+
💔 Grieving A Parent🌱 Healing From Loss🤝 Unlikely Friendship
Tiger Eyes Summary
Tiger Eyes 86%
After her father's murder, a girl moves to the desert and finds healing with a stranger.
by Judy Blume 2005
3.92
19k+ ratings
💔 Grieving A Parent🌱 Healing From Loss🤝 Unlikely Friendship
You’re the Password to My Life
by Sudeep Nagarkar • 2014
Virat and Kavya share pranks, secrets, and an unbreakable bond. Love tests it. Tragedy redefines it.
3.68
3k+
🎓 College Romance🏠 Found Family💕 First Love
You’re the Password to My Life Summary
You’re the Password to My Life 86%
Virat and Kavya share pranks, secrets, and an unbreakable bond. Love tests it. Tragedy redefines it.
by Sudeep Nagarkar 2014
3.68
3k+ ratings
🎓 College Romance🏠 Found Family💕 First Love
Before I Die
by Jenny Downham • 2007
Sixteen, terminal, Tessa writes a bucket list. The boy next door offers what no dare can.
3.81
58k+
🩺 Terminal Illness📋 Bucket List🏡 Boy Next Door
Before I Die Summary
Before I Die 86%
Sixteen, terminal, Tessa writes a bucket list. The boy next door offers what no dare can.
by Jenny Downham 2007
3.81
58k+ ratings
🩺 Terminal Illness📋 Bucket List🏡 Boy Next Door
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
by Alison Espach • 2022
A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.
3.81
41k+
👯 Sister Bond🪦 Sibling Loss😔 Survivor'S Guilt
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance Summary
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance 86%
A teenager loses her older sister in a crash, then spends years confessing to her ghost.
by Alison Espach 2022
3.81
41k+ ratings
👯 Sister Bond🪦 Sibling Loss😔 Survivor'S Guilt
If He Had Been With Me
by Laura Nowlin • 2013
She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.
3.78
598k+
🖤 Tragic Romance💕 Friends To Lovers💔 Unspoken Love
If He Had Been With Me Summary
If He Had Been With Me 86%
She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.
by Laura Nowlin 2013
3.78
598k+ ratings
🖤 Tragic Romance💕 Friends To Lovers💔 Unspoken Love
A Good Animal
by Sara Maurer • 2026
First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.
3.56
8k+
🏡 Rural Coming Of Age🐏 Sheep Farming💔 First Love
A Good Animal Summary
A Good Animal 86%
First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.
by Sara Maurer 2026
3.56
8k+ ratings
🏡 Rural Coming Of Age🐏 Sheep Farming💔 First Love
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers • 2000
Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.
3.69
184k+
🪦 Parental Loss🖤 Grief Memoir👬 Brothers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 86%
Orphaned at 21, raising his 8-year-old brother: a grief memoir that knows it's a memoir.
by Dave Eggers 2000
3.69
184k+ ratings
🪦 Parental Loss🖤 Grief Memoir👬 Brothers
A Buddhist Grief Observed
by Guy Newland • 2016
A Buddhist scholar thought he understood impermanence. Then his wife died.
3.96
130
🖤 Bereavement Memoirs☸️ Buddhist Practice🍂 Impermanence
A Buddhist Grief Observed Summary
A Buddhist Grief Observed 86%
A Buddhist scholar thought he understood impermanence. Then his wife died.
by Guy Newland 2016
3.96
130 ratings
🖤 Bereavement Memoirs☸️ Buddhist Practice🍂 Impermanence
My Sweet Orange Tree
by José Mauro de Vasconcelos • 1968
A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.
4.38
86k+
💰 Childhood Poverty💔 Grief And Loss🌌 Imagination As Refuge
My Sweet Orange Tree Summary
My Sweet Orange Tree 86%
A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.
by José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968
4.38
86k+ ratings
💰 Childhood Poverty💔 Grief And Loss🌌 Imagination As Refuge
Antes de ella
by Flor M. Salvador • 2019
Drowning in guilt and addiction, Luke meets a girl whose light makes survival worth the fight.
3.84
11k+
💔 Tragic Love Story🖤 Broken Hero😢 Grief And Guilt
Antes de ella Summary
Antes de ella 86%
Drowning in guilt and addiction, Luke meets a girl whose light makes survival worth the fight.
by Flor M. Salvador 2019
3.84
11k+ ratings
💔 Tragic Love Story🖤 Broken Hero😢 Grief And Guilt
Love & Gelato
by Jenna Evans Welch • 2016
A summer in Florence. A mother's journal. A secret romance that leads Lina to her own.
4.02
190k+
🍦 Summer Romance💔 Grief Journey🖤 First Love
Love & Gelato Summary
Love & Gelato 86%
A summer in Florence. A mother's journal. A secret romance that leads Lina to her own.
by Jenna Evans Welch 2016
4.02
190k+ ratings
🍦 Summer Romance💔 Grief Journey🖤 First Love
Wishing Season
by Anica Mrose Rissi • 2023
She finds a secret place where her dead twin still waits, but the place is shrinking.
4.32
273
🖤 Grieving A Sibling👥 Twin Bond👻 Ghostly Visits
Wishing Season Summary
Wishing Season 86%
She finds a secret place where her dead twin still waits, but the place is shrinking.
by Anica Mrose Rissi 2023
4.32
273 ratings
🖤 Grieving A Sibling👥 Twin Bond👻 Ghostly Visits
Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley • 2024
A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.
3.83
18k+
💔 Suicide Loss👥 Friendship Grief📿 Objects And Memory
Grief Is for People Summary
Grief Is for People 86%
A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.
by Sloane Crosley 2024
3.83
18k+ ratings
💔 Suicide Loss👥 Friendship Grief📿 Objects And Memory
Sisterhood Everlasting
by Ann Brashares • 2011
Four friends reunite in Santorini, but the woman who called them has drowned.
3.91
39k+
👯 Grown Up Friendship💕 Second Chance Love👧 Childhood Friends
Sisterhood Everlasting Summary
Sisterhood Everlasting 86%
Four friends reunite in Santorini, but the woman who called them has drowned.
by Ann Brashares 2011
3.91
39k+ ratings
👯 Grown Up Friendship💕 Second Chance Love👧 Childhood Friends
A Widow's Story
by Joyce Carol Oates • 2011
Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.
3.76
4k+
🖤 Spousal Loss📖 Bereavement Memoir⚡ Sudden Death
A Widow's Story Summary
A Widow's Story 86%
Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.
by Joyce Carol Oates 2011
3.76
4k+ ratings
🖤 Spousal Loss📖 Bereavement Memoir⚡ Sudden Death
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
by Colin Morgan • 2026
A boy who washes hearses in secret already knows death. Then silence steals his only friend.
4.44
497
🖋️ Literary Coming-Of-Age🍀 Northern Irish Fiction👦 Childhood Friends
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy Summary
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy 86%
A boy who washes hearses in secret already knows death. Then silence steals his only friend.
by Colin Morgan 2026
4.44
497 ratings
🖋️ Literary Coming-Of-Age🍀 Northern Irish Fiction👦 Childhood Friends
Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her
by Laura Nowlin
Neighbors since birth, they've shared everything but the one truth that could change it all.
3.86
74k+
👫 Friends To Lovers💔 Tragic Romance⏰ Right Person Wrong Time
Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her Summary
Friends to Lovers Series Volume 1 and 2 If He Had Been with Me + If Only I had Told Her 86%
Neighbors since birth, they've shared everything but the one truth that could change it all.
by Laura Nowlin
3.86
74k+ ratings
👫 Friends To Lovers💔 Tragic Romance⏰ Right Person Wrong Time
After Annie
by Anna Quindlen • 2024
Annie's death at dinner leaves her husband and teenage daughter struggling to keep the family whole.
3.98
38k+
🏠 Domestic Drama🖤 Grief Fiction💔 Sudden Death Of A Parent
After Annie Summary
After Annie 86%
Annie's death at dinner leaves her husband and teenage daughter struggling to keep the family whole.
by Anna Quindlen 2024
3.98
38k+ ratings
🏠 Domestic Drama🖤 Grief Fiction💔 Sudden Death Of A Parent
Ser feliz era esto
by Eduardo Sacheri • 2014
A fourteen-year-old orphan shows up unannounced at her father's door, demanding a place in his life.
4.08
5k+
🥀 Grieving Teen🖤 Estranged Father🍼 Unexpected Parenthood
Ser feliz era esto Summary
Ser feliz era esto 86%
A fourteen-year-old orphan shows up unannounced at her father's door, demanding a place in his life.
by Eduardo Sacheri 2014
4.08
5k+ ratings
🥀 Grieving Teen🖤 Estranged Father🍼 Unexpected Parenthood
Write Me for You
by Tillie Cole • 2025
Two dying teens meet at a ranch and fall in love, determined to write their ending.
4.30
9k+
🤒 Sick Lit🫂 Found Family📚 Metafiction
Write Me for You Summary
Write Me for You 86%
Two dying teens meet at a ranch and fall in love, determined to write their ending.
by Tillie Cole 2025
4.30
9k+ ratings
🤒 Sick Lit🫂 Found Family📚 Metafiction
How to Fix a Broken Heart
by Guy Winch • 2018
Your brain treats heartbreak like drug withdrawal. So why does nobody tell you how to detox?
4.15
4k+
💔 Heartbreak Recovery🖤 Grief And Loss🤗 Self-Compassion
How to Fix a Broken Heart Summary
How to Fix a Broken Heart 86%
Your brain treats heartbreak like drug withdrawal. So why does nobody tell you how to detox?
by Guy Winch 2018
4.15
4k+ ratings
💔 Heartbreak Recovery🖤 Grief And Loss🤗 Self-Compassion
Before I Forget
by Tory Henwood Hoen • 2025
A wayward daughter returns to care for her father, whose dementia brings unsettling prophecy.
4.18
27k+
🫂 Parental Caregiving👯 Sisterhood✨ Quiet Magical Realism
Before I Forget Summary
Before I Forget 86%
A wayward daughter returns to care for her father, whose dementia brings unsettling prophecy.
by Tory Henwood Hoen 2025
4.18
27k+ ratings
🫂 Parental Caregiving👯 Sisterhood✨ Quiet Magical Realism
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green • 2012
A guarded cancer patient meets a charming survivor who bets his one wish on her.
4.12
5.8M+
🏥 Sick-Lit💔 Doomed Romance🤔 Philosophical Teens
The Fault in Our Stars Summary
The Fault in Our Stars 85%
A guarded cancer patient meets a charming survivor who bets his one wish on her.
by John Green 2012
4.12
5.8M+ ratings
🏥 Sick-Lit💔 Doomed Romance🤔 Philosophical Teens
The Lessons of Love
by Melody Beattie • 2013
Her son died. She said yes to a marriage she knew would fail. It saved her.
4.02
257
🕊️ Parental Grief📖 Grief Memoirs🌱 Healing After Loss
The Lessons of Love Summary
The Lessons of Love 85%
Her son died. She said yes to a marriage she knew would fail. It saved her.
by Melody Beattie 2013
4.02
257 ratings
🕊️ Parental Grief📖 Grief Memoirs🌱 Healing After Loss
Did I Ever Tell You?
by Genevieve Kingston • 2024
Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.
4.29
6k+
🕯️ Grief Memoir🥀 Loss Of A Mother🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond
Did I Ever Tell You? Summary
Did I Ever Tell You? 85%
Her dying mother packed gift chests for the milestones she'd miss. The first opened at sixteen.
by Genevieve Kingston 2024
4.29
6k+ ratings
🕯️ Grief Memoir🥀 Loss Of A Mother🧵 Mother-Daughter Bond
A Short History of the Girl Next Door
by Jared Reck • 2017
A teen's unspoken love for his best friend becomes gutting grief after a car crash.
3.85
8k+
💔 Unrequited Love🚗 Car Accident Tragedy🥀 Grief And Guilt
A Short History of the Girl Next Door Summary
A Short History of the Girl Next Door 85%
A teen's unspoken love for his best friend becomes gutting grief after a car crash.
by Jared Reck 2017
3.85
8k+ ratings
💔 Unrequited Love🚗 Car Accident Tragedy🥀 Grief And Guilt
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