The Porch - Pieces For A Broken Heart EBOOK

Grief cannot be fixed. This book doesn’t try.

The Porch is a collection of short, plain-spoken pieces for anyone learning to live in the space someone left behind. It was written for people who have lost a husband, a wife, a parent, a child or a friend. Their absence still shapes every day.

These pieces don’t tell you to move on or find closure, and they don’t say your loved one is in a better place. They name the things nobody warns you about:

• Buying the wrong amount at the grocery store

• Their handwriting still on the calendar

• Cooking for two out of habit

• Sleeping on your side of the bed

• Being the last person who remembers who you used to be

What’s inside

117 pages of short pieces, in four parts:

• I. The Weight: the first days, and the small ordinary things that undo you

• II. The Middle: grief settling in, and the people around you who mean well but don’t understand

• III. The Turning: talking to the one you lost, and guilt, dreams and small shifts

• IV. The Porch: a quieter kind of okay, and the love that stays

How to read it

There’s no right order. Open to any page and let it find you where you are. Keep it by the bed for 2am, or read one piece with your morning coffee. You don’t have to be okay to read it.

This book is for you if…

• You’ve lost someone and the usual comfort doesn’t help

• You want words that sit with you instead of fixing you

• You’re looking for a gift for someone grieving, one that says “I see you” without a single cliché