Author: Sloane Crosley

In her new memoir, “Grief Is for People,” Sloane Crosley works through the death of a beloved friend and mentor.

“Grief Is for People” is Crosley’s eighth book (counting the novel she co-wrote under a pen name and the anthology she edited) and her first memoir.

It is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship and a book about loss packed with verve for life. 

Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. 

After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more valuable than the unavoidable stages of grief.

“The book looks at several forms of loss and the grief we experience,” said a review on Goodreads.com.

A two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, Crosley’s work has been selected for numerous anthologies.