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Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter – Navigating the Bonds, Loss, and Rituals of Our Animal Family - Couverture souple

Bartels, E.B.

 
9780063470750: Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter – Navigating the Bonds, Loss, and Rituals of Our Animal Family
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ISBN 10 : 0063470756 ISBN 13 : 9780063470750
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2025

Synopsis

"A wonderful, unusual, and healing book. . . Read this book to affirm that love never dies, and you are not alone."—Sy Montgomery

An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.

E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet, and to own a pet is also—with rare exception—to lose that pet in time.

But while we have codified traditions to mark the passing of our fellow humans, most cultures don’t have the same for pets. Bartels takes us from Massachusetts to Japan, from ancient Egypt to the modern era, in search of the good pet death. We meet veterinarians, archaeologists, ministers, and more, offering an idiosyncratic, inspiring array of rituals—from the traditional (scattering ashes, commissioning a portrait), to the grand (funereal processions, mausoleums), to the unexpected (taxidermy, cloning). The central lesson: there is no best practice when it comes to mourning your pet, except to care for them in death as you did in life, and find the space to participate in their end as fully as you can.

Punctuated by wry, bighearted accounts of Bartels’s own pets and their deaths, Good Grief is a cathartic companion through loving and losing our animal family.

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À propos de l'auteur

E.B. BARTELS is a nonfiction writer, a former Newtonville Books bookseller, and a GrubStreet instructor, with an MFA from Columbia. Her writing has been published in Catapult, The Rumpus, The Millions, and The Toast. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0063470756
ISBN 13 
9780063470750
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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9780358212331: Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0358212332 ISBN 13 :  9780358212331
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2022
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