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MODERN LOSS
Rebecca Soffer Gabrielle Birkner
Candid conversation about grief. Begginers welcome.
Gabi Birkner was writing obituaries for a living when her father and stepmother were killed in a home invasion robbery. She is a journalist and writer who currently works at the Wall Street Journal and for ModernLoss.
Rebecca Soffer was a producer for The Colbert Report when her mother died in a car accident on her way home from visiting Rebecca. Her father died of a heart attack while on vacation four years later. She is an experienced television producer who currently works full-time at ModernLoss.
Rebecca and Gabi first met at a dinner party set up for six women, all in their late 20s/early 30s, who barely knew one another but had one critically important thing in common: they had all been recently forced to face life without one or both of their parents.
They approached the dinner hopeful to find a community that understood without their need to offer explanations. They were moving through their grief feeling alienated by the kinds of support available: clinical articles their googling had produced, well meaning, but not quite right support groups, and outdated books that made them feel like eye-rolling teenagers. But in their individual quests for comfort, they had all come to understand a deep and painful reality about grief in our modern world--it was shockingly difficult to find honest, relevant and in any way cathartic discussions about loss and how badly it sucked.
At that first dinner, as the group expelled a collective sigh of relief, the seeds of the Modern Loss community were sown. ModernLoss was launched in late 2013 and so deep was the void for what it offered that within hours of going live, an out-pouring of stories and support came crashing in.
Celebrated authors and new voices alike clamored to offer their stories and advice. The media took notice. The morning of the launch, Slate announced that two women were aiming to redefine how we talk about grief and within a month The New York Times took notice as well, featuring the online community on the front page of its Sunday Styles section. It seemed that in an age where we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where Sheryl Sandberg’s intimate post about the death of her husband goes viral within minutes leading to a national outpouring of support and sharing of stories, Modern Loss could (and already was) helping to change the contemporary discourse on grief.
The book will help people engage with grief and loss on their own terms.
Comprised of original essays and enriched by infographics, ModernLoss will be inclusive of many kinds of loss, as experienced by a highly diverse group of people. The book will look as good as it reads so that people won’t feel the need to hide it when friends come over.
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Published 2018-01-01 by HarperWave |