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Grief Is for People
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A discursive memoir/essay in which Crosley attempts to come to terms with and make sense of the death by suicide of her dearest friend, the man who had started as her mentor and boss at publishing house Vintage. It’s a funny, loving but unvarnished portrait of the man and of their friendship; I felt both that I got a pretty good sense of the person he was and of how much he meant to the author and the huge hole left in her life by his absence. She offers many interesting and touching reflections about her emotions surrounding the death. What worked less well for me was the author’s attempt to see connective ripples between her friend’s death/absence and the break-in and theft of her jewelry exactly one month before his suicide. That didn’t really hit the mark for me and felt a bit like padding.
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April 4, 2024
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April 4, 2024
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April 6, 2024
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Hey, Jodi. Well, the connection partially worked. She used an antique Dutch spice cabinet as her jewelry box, which she’d bought during a flea market outing with her friend, who was addicted to flea markets. (He was a gay man with very specific tastes, and was expert at finding treasures among the dross.) And she’d worn a lot of her jewelry around him, of course, and he had favourite pieces. And there was just her overall sense of loss and violation—death is always hard to deal with, but I think suicide magnifies the emotions, makes it all so much harder. But like I said, it didn’t entirely work, in my opinion.
Deborah wrote: "Hey, Jodi. Well, the connection partially worked. She used an antique Dutch spice cabinet as her jewelry box, which she’d bought during a flea market outing with her friend, who was addicted to fle..."Ah, that's cool!
Deborah, you read SO MANY books, and so QUICKLY, that I'm absolutely in awe of you! How do you keep them all straight? I only read about one per week and, even at that, I sometimes get them mixed up in my head - putting the plots and the characters in the wrong books, etc.🤪 I really can't imagine how you do it!
I think you must be super-human!😉
I'm curious how the author connects her friend's suicide with her own jewellery theft. Seems pretty odd to me, too.🤔