Reproductive Losses, Infant/Child Loss, & Losses Amidst Matrescence

Websites:

PLIDA: https://www.plida.org/

The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, & Death: https://birthbreathanddeath.com/

Nonfiction:

“Ghostbelly” - Elizabeth D. Heineman

“I Had a Miscarriage” -Jessica Zucker

“What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color”

“So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth”

“Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir”- Jayson Greene

Fiction:

“Still Born” -Guadalupe Nettel

“Monstrilio: A Novel” -Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Grief & Mourning

Websites:

The Dinner Party: https://www.thedinnerparty.org/

Claire Bidwell Smith: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/

Memoirs:

“No Longer Than A Sigh” -Anne Philipe

“The Year of Magical Thinking” -Joan Didion

“Blue Nights” -Joan Didion

“End Of The Hour” -Meghan Rhiordan Jarvis

“In Love” -Amy Bloom

“A Very Easy Death” -Simone de Beauvoir

“Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness” -Kathryn Schulz

“Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide” -Rachel Zimmerman

“All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir”-Erin Lee Carr

“The State Of Disbelief” -Juliet Rosenfeld

“Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy” -Dani Shapiro

“The Rules of Inheritance”-Calire Bidwell Smith

“Paula: A Memoir” Isabel Allende

“Mourning Diary” -Roland Barthes

“The Day That Went Missing”-Richard Beard

Nonfiction:

The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation” -Robert Romanyshyn

Fiction:

“We All Want Impossible Things: A Novel” -Catherine Newman

“Monstrilio: A Novel” -Gerardo Sámano Córdova

“Gus in Bronze” -Alexandra Marshall

“Our Wives Under the Sea”-Julia Armfield

Poetry/Art Books:

“Poems 1962-2012” - Louise Glück

“Angel Bones” -Ilyse Kusnetz

“Seeing the Body” -Rachel Eliza Griffiths

“Mourning” -Lisa Kereszi

“The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse” -Sam Taylor

“Focal Point “ -Jenny Qi

“Obit” -Victoria Chang

Death Anxiety

Nonfiction:

“No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death” -Irvin Yalom

“Meditations” -Marcus Aurelius

“For Small Creatures Such as We” -Sasha Sagan

Resources