Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.

Modern Loss is based on a website that examines how people navigate grief and resilience in the age of social media. The book features candid essays from various contributors, accompanied by two-color illustrations and infographics. In an era when public mourning happens through hashtags and intimate posts about loss go viral, people are navigating grief without clear guidance. Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who each lost parents as young adults, co-founded Modern Loss to change how we discuss the messy experience of grief. The book includes contributions from forty guest writers, including Lucy Kalanithi, Amanda Palmer, and Brian Stelter. They share personal stories on topics such as triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Each essay offers a perspective on loss and includes hand-drawn illustrations and witty cartoons. The collection aims to help readers cry, laugh, grieve, and empathize with others. It invites honest and humorous conversation about grief while exploring the shared humanity and mortality we all experience.