Book Bingo: Grief
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Grief. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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Martyr!
Fiction. An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. (NoveList)
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Against Erasure
Nonfiction. Against Erasure invites us into a past before the rupture of the Nakba, and invites us to bear witness in the moments that created this catastrophe. Through viewing the photographs, we can read ourselves in the historical context that created our present, and imagine something different. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
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Good Grief
Nonfiction. Anyone who has lost a pet knows how challenging the grief can be. It can often feel isolating, as others dismiss feelings of grief over "just an animal." Bartels does an excellent job of making a grieving pet parent feel seen, as she explores the history of humans and pets and how domestic animals have been honored after death. (Library Journal)
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Grievers
Fiction. Brown makes her fiction debut with the powerful, emotional story of Dune, a young woman living in Detroit, Mich., in the midst of a bizarre epidemic… this hits the nail on the head with its deep, moving exploration of loss, family, community, gentrification, and rapidly changing urban landscapes. It's a strong precedent that will leave readers eager for more. (Publishers Weekly)
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Break the Cycle
Nonfiction. Psychologist Buqué debuts with a wise program for repairing intergenerational trauma through a holistic framework that targets mind, body, and spirit… Readers seeking a practical and psychologically grounded approach to healing familial wounds will find value here. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Mourner's Bestiary
Nonfiction. Caffall brings readers to… Monhegan Island, in the Gulf of Maine, "the world's fastest-warming marine ecosystem." As she shares her wonder over the might and beauty of the ocean and her deep concern for its future, inherited from her mother, she also describes the as-yet-incurable genetic kidney disorder inherited from her father, polycystic kidney disease... This intricate, delving, and affecting rhapsody to the glory of the seas and our capacity for love, learning, and transformation sings with sorrow, awe, courage, and hope. (Booklist)
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The Message
Nonfiction. In a series of three sweeping essays that take readers through Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine, and Israel, acclaimed social writer Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the myths that animate and guide us - often at the expense of the truth. (Harper’s Bazaar)
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Healing Through Yoga
Nonfiction. Excellent step-by-step guidance for releasing grief and adapting to an unwanted new normal. (Library Journal)
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Renegade Grief
Nonfiction. Renegade Grief offers the support in this next stage of grieving - when you feel isolated in your loss and are figuring out how to navigate it. Shaped by her own experience with the death of her father… Carla Fernandez pushes back on the death-denying culture we live in. (Publisher description)
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Ghost Forest
Fiction. The unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him... real, raw, and poignant meditations on how life and love can sometimes best be discovered in dying. (Publisher description)
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