Facing Goodbye

Submission guidelines at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press

Books about Goodbye

“Bonjour Tristesse” by Françoise Sagan (discussed in one of Mirjam’s book clubs)

“Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner (discussed in one of Mirjam’s book clubs)

“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green (also a 2014 movie)

“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Oppermanns” by Lion Feuchtwanger (discussed in one of Mirjam’s book clubs)

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini (discussed in one of Mirjam’s book clubs)

“The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion

“When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi

“On Death and Dying” by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Movies and TV shows about Goodbye

Before Sunrise (1995)

La La Land (2016)

The Farewell (2019)

The Swimmers (2022)


being left behind

a life in your company

can’t stay without you

Mirjam Mahler, August 2021