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Encapsulates so many feelings I’ve had for a while. That final line hit hard and drives home the finality of death and how it comes without warning. Thank you to everyone who recommended this.
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Graphic: Grief
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Registré pedazos sobre el duelo. A través del lenguaje, de lo que queda de una persona vista por otra. Sobre la pena y todos los duelos que son.
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I read Notes on Grief with my whole body because I, too, lost my mother unexpectedly during the early days of the pandemic. She was 60. I hadn’t seen her in person for months. We FaceTimed every day, and then she was gone.
Though my family culture is entirely different from Adichie’s, every emotion she describes felt familiar. Her grief mirrored mine in ways that were almost eerie in their accuracy. When she reflects on how the pandemic gave us a false sense of control—washing our hands, staying home—and how one loss shattered that illusion, I felt that same shift. Suddenly, death wasn’t abstract. It was personal, close, and unavoidable.
This is a short book, but it contains a depth of feeling that’s hard to put into words. Adichie captures the strange, disorienting shape of grief in a way that felt both intimate and universal. Her words helped me understand my own loss more clearly and reminded me I’m not alone in it.
Though my family culture is entirely different from Adichie’s, every emotion she describes felt familiar. Her grief mirrored mine in ways that were almost eerie in their accuracy. When she reflects on how the pandemic gave us a false sense of control—washing our hands, staying home—and how one loss shattered that illusion, I felt that same shift. Suddenly, death wasn’t abstract. It was personal, close, and unavoidable.
This is a short book, but it contains a depth of feeling that’s hard to put into words. Adichie captures the strange, disorienting shape of grief in a way that felt both intimate and universal. Her words helped me understand my own loss more clearly and reminded me I’m not alone in it.
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