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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

7 reviews

thebankofbooks's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol

cinnamonandchaos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Blood and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

quinn_07's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cursing, Grief, and Death

Minor: Alcohol

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, and Violence

michael_richter's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol and Animal cruelty

megmahoney1's review

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

A strange little book, telling the story of a man trying to endure the loss of his wife while caring for their two sons. Their is also an additional perspective of this grief portrayed as an anthropomorphic crow. I found the crows additions to the story jarring at times and wasn’t my favourite thing to read. Having said that there were some touching moments, especially the ending <in which their father is scattering his wife’s ashes, and he’s saying goodbye and ponders his two sons> which was beautiful. I found the audiobook on my library app when I’d almost finished the book, and I think I would’ve had a potentially better experience listening to this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: Alcohol

lonelamplighter's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A beautiful, moving body of feathery prose crammed into a slim and poignant volume. A meditation on grief, an exploration of family, and a reflection on the nature of poetry, Grief is the Thing with Feathers is all at once hopeful and terrible, full of light and heavyhearted, and deeply, deeply quiet in all the right places.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Alcoholism, and Alcohol