--- description: Find out why "Grief Is for People" is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. title: 'Grief Is for People' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt681bd75b0275015c/698a8d1047ca3881153c2f68/Grief-is-for-People-Sloane-Crosley.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 13, 2024 # Grief Is for People by [Meg Zukin](/author/meg-zukin/) ## Meg Zukin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  In 2019, [Sloane Crosley](https://time.com/6180659/sloane-crosley-interview-cult-classic/ "undefined")’s home was burglarized. On a nondescript afternoon, a robber broke into her New York City apartment and stole all her jewelry—41 pieces, including her grandmother’s vivid green cocktail ring. A month later, her good friend and former boss Russell died by suicide. Crosley’s memoir, which loosely follows Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, is a meditation on and exploration of these compounded losses. Crosley flips between past and present day, exposing the threads that make up the fabric of her and Russell’s relationship, and sharing their enmeshed history. She’s a detective in death as she reexamines their final interactions and ponders questions about loss that plague us all. With her signature wit and sardonic style, in _Grief Is for People,_ Crosley captures the complexities and aches that come with losing someone. **Buy Now:** _Grief Is for People_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780374609849 "undefined") | [Amazon](https://fave.co/40zr0MR "undefined") | [Barnes & Noble](https://fave.co/3Cu9nDV "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2024/7172861/grief-is-for-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2024/7172861/grief-is-for-people/"},"headline":"Grief Is for People","datePublished":"2024-11-13T13:07:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:42:31.857Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2024/7172861/grief-is-for-people/","keywords":["Books","E-Commerce","list","franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt681bd75b0275015c/698a8d1047ca3881153c2f68/Grief-is-for-People-Sloane-Crosley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Meg Zukin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/meg-zukin/"}],"creator":"Meg Zukin","articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt681bd75b0275015c/698a8d1047ca3881153c2f68/Grief-is-for-People-Sloane-Crosley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2024/7172861/grief-is-for-people/","name":"Grief Is for People"}}]}] ```