The Grief Shop

“Sharp, inventive, and deeply human, The Grief Shop is a look at how emotions make us who we are and the way those same feelings link us together. Simultaneously zooming in to the personal and out to the global, DiFrancesco is an astute observer of how we all tick.”​ —Never Angeline Nørth, author of SARA or ‘I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead’

“With their latest collection, Alex DiFrancesco brings us quiet, melancholy stories from a future just a few moments away. The Grief Shop and Other Stories From a Broken World holds space for both the deep alienation and profound emotional texture of our contemporary world, and a world just around the corner.”—Cavar, author of Failure to Comply

​”What a gift to have this vision of a world beyond feeling and all its feverishly dreamed emotional hustles—and what a gift to have as our Virgil Alex DiFrancesco, that master of the punch that wakes up your heart.” —Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L

“If ever there was a collection of short stories for our time, The Grief Shop and Other Stories from a Broken World is it.” —Broad Street Review