Resources to Learn More about Child Loss, Grief, and Related Topics

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Blue Nights by Joan Didion

• Being Moral: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes

• Lissa by Saharien Hamdy and Coleman Nye

• Grief & Loss: Theories & Skills for the Helping Professions by Katherine Walsh

• Finding the Words: How to Talk with children and teens about death, suicide, funerals, homicide, cremation and other end-of-life matters by Alan D. Wolfelt

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore

• A Grief Observed by CS Lewis

• Antoine des Gommiers by Lyonel Trouillot

• Je suis vivant by Kettly Mars

• Les Villages de Dieu by Emmelie Prophète

• L'événement by Annie Ernaux

• Alex: The Life of a Child by Frank Deford

• Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss by Lucy C. Hone

• Healing Children by Kurt Newman M.D.

• Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene

• A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaoad

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• When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children by David J. Bearison

• Waves by Ingrid Chabbert and Carole Maurel

• Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child by Gary Roe

• ​Finding Hope When a Child Dies: What Other Cultures Can Teach Us by Susie Miller

• Garden of Grief by Lori Koidahl

• Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Anne Hood

• Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

• Passed On: African American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway

• The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine

• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraquib

• The Art of Death by Edwige Danticat

• Mémoire errante by Jan J. Dominique

• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

• Memories of Max by Allan Buchanan

• The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief by Jan Richardson

• Grieving While Black: An Anti-Racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wad

• The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

• Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp Black