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The Best Book About Life After Loss From 2019
Forge’s pick for the year’s best read on moving through grief
This year perfectly encapsulated the disorienting, occasionally dystopian decade it capped off. Amid economic uncertainty, political upheaval, and the looming shadow of climate catastrophe, we searched for answers. We grasped for mentors. And we read books — many, many books. Within the flux of chaos, these books showed us new approaches for our work, our relationships, our minds, and our moods.
Every day this week, we’ll offer you one of our favorite personal development books of the year, as well as a runner-up in each category.
Forge’s favorite book about life after loss from 2019:
Running Home: A Memoir by Katie Arnold
Katie Arnold insists that she never set out to become an ultrarunner. Ultrarunning found her. Signing up for her first 50K race was “triage,” as Arnold puts it, when her father died of cancer — three months after her second daughter was born and a mere 10 weeks after doctors found the fist-sized tumor that would seal…
