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For The Week After

What people gave me, and what actually helped. Two very different lists. This is the second one.

a list by Kit7 books

  1. The Year of Magical Thinking

    “The only one that did not try to comfort me.”

    Joan Didion

    Shelve
    1
  2. H Is for Hawk

    Helen Macdonald

    Shelve
    2
  3. Devotions

    “A page at a time. Nothing more was possible.”

    Mary Oliver

    Shelve
    3
  4. When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi

    Shelve
    4
  5. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

    Max Porter

    Shelve
    5
  6. Gilead

    “For later. Not the first week.”

    Marilynne Robinson

    Shelve
    6
  7. Bluets

    Maggie Nelson

    Shelve
    7