Fiction books about grief

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel’s sweetly gothic drawings.

$35.00

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We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her…

$19.95

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The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

Now in paperback, Thi Sui’s intimate and moving portrait of her family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America.

$29.99

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A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness,Siobhan Dowd

An extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss.

$19.99

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One Would Think the Deep

Claire Zorn

CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Older Readers) 2017

Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing…

$19.99

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Catching Teller Crow

Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.  Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…

$19.99

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The Death of Noah Glass

Gail Jones

Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, it is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.

$29.99

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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning…

$24.99

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Ironbark

Jay Carmichael

Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award.

$29.99

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Small Things

Mel Tregonning

An ordinary boy in an ordinary world…With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help…

$29.99

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The Friend

Sigrid Nunez

Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion. 

$22.99

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