Hello and happy Thursday. Today’s review is probably extremely niche, but I don’t really care. I say this because Good Grief by Sara Goodman Confino is set in the 1960s, which I don’t know if means this is automatically a historical novel, and because it also almost exclusively features Jewish characters. If you didn’t know, I am a Jew, and it’s weird to have to alert people into reading about us, but that’s how things are in this day and age, right?

As the title suggests, this novel also addresses grief, particularly the one of our main character, whose husband died a few years ago, and her mother in law, who ends up moving in with our main character to help her take care of the kids and the house. The mood that it sets is generally comedic, as the main character and her mother in law navigate life under one roof, but of course there are heavier subject matters that come with the loss of a partner and a child, as well as the need to move on.

This title is available on Kindle Unlimited, both as an ebook and as an audiobook, which is how I consumed it. If you’re at least mildly intrigued, I’d suggest you give it a try.