Welcome to the Grief Club

By Janine Kwoh,

Book cover of Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone

Book description

Welcome to the Grief Club--a place where one human who experienced a terrible loss, Janine Kwoh, is at the door to welcome other humans who are grieving. It is not an instruction manual, or a step-by-step playbook, or a memoir. It is, rather, a fresh, empathetic approach to all of…

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Why read it?

2 authors picked Welcome to the Grief Club as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a wonderful practical guide to grieving that is accompanied by charming illustrations from the author. This might make it sound child-like or cutsie, but it’s not at all.

It’s an honest and fierce guide that doesn’t use any cheesy aphorisms or simplistic clichés about grief. It tells it like it is, but with kindness and hope. It helped me feel not so alone.

From Colin's list on helping cope with grief and loss.

I wish this lovely book was written years ago when I lost my sisters. As the title states, “Because you don’t have to go through it alone.” Written with love, first-hand experience, and not your typical grief book filled with anecdotes, helpful shortlists, and more than a how-to but one that you can decipher any or all pieces at any time. Janine writes with raw honesty and expresses on the page what we experienced in our head and unable to verbalize. The graphics of the cover are brilliant and the size of the book allows for mobility to keep with…

From Judy's list on sibling loss, love, and hope.

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