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Look Alive Out There
Sloane Crosley
★★★★· Published 2018· 257 pages· read 2018
Sloane Crosley's essays are dry, self-deprecating, and very funny. Great to dip into.
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★ 5Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley on losing her closest friend to suicide, braided with a burglary. Funny and raw at once.
What Does It Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella wrote this after her own brain tumor diagnosis, about a novelist facing the same. Slim and quietly moving.
First Love: Essays on Friendship
Lilly Dancyger
Essays about female friendship, each one anchored in a real friend of Dancyger's, including the cousin she adored who was murdered at twenty. Grief-streaked and unflinching about how much these loves shape us.