This is a preorder book, available to order from 25 June to 10 July. Estimated arrival is 2–4 weeks after the preorder period ends (it...

This is a preorder book, available to order from 25 June to 10 July. Estimated arrival is 2–4 weeks after the preorder period ends (it may arrive sooner!).

Sometimes loss feels less like an ending and more like a question you can’t quite answer.

In Grief Is for People, Sloane Crosley unpacks the disorienting weight of losing her closest friend to suicide and the strange, surreal theft that preceded it. Funny, candid, and bracingly honest, Crosley reflects on her years spent with Russell in the dizzying world of New York publishing, their private jokes and public ambitions, and the difficult puzzle of learning to live without him.

With wry humor and clear-eyed insight, she looks to art, literature, and memory as she tries to make sense of the absences that accumulate in her life and her city. This is a story about friendship, grief, and the fragile scaffolding that holds us up even after it’s been knocked askew.

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📗 In The Mood For…

Healing
A sharp, deeply felt memoir about surviving the impossible.
✅ Gives readers permission to acknowledge their pain and confusion
✅ Finds humor and humanity in the hardest of feelings

Feeling Seen
A frank, thoughtful exploration of losing someone you love.
✅ Speaks to the tenderness and isolation of mourning
✅ Validates the messy, nonlinear experience of grief

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📘 Stories About…

Pain, Suffering & Recovery
This is an elegy for a friend and for a sense of safety shattered.
✅ Examines grief from multiple angles: personal, cultural, and existential
✅ Suggests that mourning is as much about living as it is about loss

Connection & Solitude
Crosley’s writing reminds us that grief, however lonely, can also bind us.
✅ Honors friendships and what they leave behind
✅ Suggests that connection continues, even after someone is gone