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No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny was my first book for #NonfictionNovember, and it happed accidentally. I was mulling over a TBR post when I picked it up, began reading the first page…and never stopped. I could tell you about The Things That Happened to Nora, but you can find that out by reading the jacket. Instead I’ll say that McInerny writes openly about grief — and while I don’t have a frame of reference for the losses she experienced, I do understand how an event can bifurcate your life so there is a Before and an After. She takes one of our society’s most taboo subjects and lays it out in all its beautiful, messy, terribleness. And then she examines what comes next. ID: I’m holding up a paperback copy of No Happy Endings with one hand. Part of a gauzy curtained window is visible in the left side of the frame. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Czd9WjorA0w/