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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Forget Prayers, Bring Cake
Nonfiction. Gerson (an intergenerational trauma consultant on the set of Amazon's hit show Transparent) is no stranger to grief. Here she reflects on grieving as a single person, drawing on her training in inherited trauma and her own grief after the death of her father… An excellent resource for readers dealing with grief or trauma on their own. (Publishers Weekly)
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Small Rain
Fiction. Greenwell - such a finely tuned, generous writer - transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life. (Kirkus)
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Okinawa
Fiction. Okinawa elegantly explores the painful realities of colonialism... Higa captures quiet moments of human connection, even as he unsparingly documents the ongoing loss of the islands' Indigenous culture and the suffering of their people. (Washington Post)
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Feeding Ghosts
Nonfiction. A graphic novelist contends with her maternal family’s complicated history… A work that glimmers with insight, acumen, and an unwillingness to settle for simple answers. (Kirkus)
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From the Ashes
Nonfiction. Labor journalist Jaffe delivers a searching meditation on grief and its misapprehensions… A fresh way to look at the psychic pains that we bear mostly alone - and unnecessarily so. (Kirkus)
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How to Live Free in A Dangerous World
Nonfiction. In this forceful memoir-in-essays, poet Lawson shares the lessons they've learned from their travels across America and abroad… The final product is both vivid and galvanizing. (Publishers Weekly)
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A Parent's Guide to Managing Childhood Grief
Nonfiction. Help your child navigate feelings of sadness and loss with 100 unique, activity-based approaches that help them manage their childhood grief in a healthy and constructive way. (Publisher description)
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Wednesday's Child
Fiction. An infinite variety of ways to survive - or, at least, march through - devastating loss are cataloged in Li’s cool and measured litany of pain… a gorgeous almanac... Quiet, beautiful accounts of journeys through hell. (Kirkus)
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I'm Sorry for My Loss
Nonfiction. Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, both experienced late-term [pregnancy] loss, and together they… shatter taboos that have made so many pregnant people feel ashamed and alone... Combining powerful personal narratives with exhaustive research, I'm Sorry for My Loss is a comprehensive examination on how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and politicized, and why a system of more compassionate care is critical for everyone. (Publisher description)
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All This Could Be Different
Fiction. Mathews is most affecting when charting the wonders of community-building, delving into the strenuous work that goes into sustaining meaningful friendships as well as the heartbreak that ensues when connections are fractured by dishonesty. This thoughtful exploration of the legacies of trauma makes an impact. (Publishers Weekly)
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