loss (psychology)

On separate trips, Ernest and Magdalene discover their true thoughts about their families and begin to think about them and the past mistakes of their parents.

Three sisters deal with tragedy after the oldest, Elv, who was sexually abused by a stranger as a child, succumbs to drug addiction and a mental breakdown, the middle sister, Meg, falls ill, and the youngest, Claire, tries to cope with her feelings of guilt over what happened to Elv.

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.

Maya Lange, owner of the Red Thread Adoption Agency, guides six sets of prospective parents through the process of adopting Chinese children, and through the journey they confide to her while she confronts the loss of her infant daughter in a freak accident.

Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland, leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book, which was published under a different man's name.

A collection of nine short stories by Julie Orringer about dealing with loss.

Contains eight short fiction stories that tell of the relationships and emotions of doctors, nurses, scientists, explorers, and collectors living and working around the world.