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The Cure For Grief: A Novel (2008)

by Nellie Hermann(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416568239 (ISBN13: 9781416568230)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: A beautiful book. This is much more than simply the coming of age story about Ruby Bronstein, who manages to grow up alongside great loss and personal tragedy. Beginning with a fall and ending with a baptism, the story is about salvation in many forms- what it means to be a survivor and what it means to save oneself. In the character of Ruby, we find is a relatable heroine, incredibly real; fragile but incredibly strong.
review 2: I kept looking for a silver lining - an everything will work out fine and there is a concrete way for Ruby to deal with her greif, but it never really came, which is very true to real life, so I guess I should be okay with that. But when you watch your main character struggle through so many losses, it's hard not to have something abs... moreolutely beautiful happen for her at the end of the book - I wanted it for her. I would have liked to see the author have some kind of roadmap through grief, but I suppose it's different for everyone, so that is pretty unrealistic. All in all a good book. Not an uplifting book by any stretch of hte imagination, but well written. It does a very good job of showing the highs and lows of family and the different ways that everyone deals with greif and loss. less

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