Books on grief & loss
These are the stories that saved my life (disclaimer: some are on my to-read list!):
Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief, After This, and The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Grief Girl by Erin Vincent
Her by Christa Parravani
Modern Loss by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner
Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers by Hope Edelman
Passed and Present, Parentless Parents, and Always Too Soon by Allison Gilbert
Splitting the Difference by Tré Miller Rodríguez
The Best of Us by Joyce Maynard
The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Year My Mother Came Back by Alice Eve Cohen
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Pancreatic cancer organizations & more
I’m in awe of these organizations and the lasting impact they’ve had on my family:
The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Howard W. Bruckner, MD of Bruckner Oncology (Sally’s former oncologist)