Grief Girl Paperback by Erin Vincent

Product Details

• Publisher: Ember (2008-11-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385733861
• Item Weight: 263.09 grams
• Dimensions: 20.96 x 13.97 x 1.83 cm

This is the gripping true story of how one devastating moment tears a family apart and how love and strength come together to rebuild what was lost.

“Compelling... tinged with the rawness only real life can provide.” —Entertainment Weekly

I am just like you.
I get bored in school.
I goof off with my friends.
I fight with my family.
I have big dreams.
I am just like everyone else.
And then, in a split second, I’m not.

It's just another October day until Erin’s parents are hit by a speeding tow truck. Mom dies instantly. Dad dies one month later, after doctors assure Erin he’s going to make it. Now Erin and her sister are left to raise their baby brother—and each other.

Grief Girl will break your heart and then fill you with hope, time and time again.

About the Author

Erin Vincent has worked as a journalist, a fashion designer, a theater actress, a photographer’s assistant, a tailor to the stars, a bartender, and has served meat pies and mushy peas late at night from a roadside van in Sydney. Her memoir, Grief Girl, was named a New York Public Library Best Book and an American Library Association Best Book Nominee. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Guardian, Meanjin, The Offing, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Technology Sydney and is currently studying for a PhD in creative writing. She lives in a little cottage with her lovely and talented husband, Adam Knott, and their lovely and talented cat, Little Eve.