#almost life

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2026:

"almost life"

kiran millwood hargrave

"there were never strawberries/like the ones we had/that sultry afternoon, and she understood for the first time the past tense of it, the longing for what is passed. the fumbling for something that is gone and cannot come again"

[maryoliveoil]

Spoilers for Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave under the cut

Thinking about how Erica had her stillborn son cremated immediately but held onto one cigarette Laure rolled for her for 30 years 😭😭😭

[fireache]

eek it’s here and with free goodies!!! 🥹

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Almost Life: A Novel

By Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

[herondale-josten-rozanov]

Erica did not go visit Laure when she had a stroke 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and in turn did not get to know she died until 3 years later 😭😭😭😭 girl I wept so hard what in the doomed yuri literary fiction 😭😭😭😭

[turtlelady9]

Thick new stack of semi-tragic reads for those rainy days of summer

[venusianmoongoddexx]

Finishing up this ARC tonight while I eat my pies and drink my Coquito