lisasolomon 's review for:

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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i am the person that sends year of magical thinking to someone who is grieving. sometimes the importance of seeing your pain and grief reflected back to you is the thing that will hold it at bay for a even just a moment. i continually look to see how other artists/writers confront, explain, react to grief. it's never the same but there are always threads that connect. and at some point you realize you need more than one perspective as each encounter with grief shifts your own associations and reactions.

adichie's notes capture the raw disbelief and anger and confusion precisely. as precisely as one can express a completely imprecise time.

there are many things i think we need to do a better job at discussing as a culture or as humans. grief is one of those things. this book is required reading to that end.