grief Archives - Pearl's and Ruby's

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December 10, 2025 by Edith Campbell

review: Balancing Act

Lives are validated not through what reviewers often see as ‘gritty’ but a very nuanced layering of Black classicism. Even though she provides a fictitious urban setting, these teen’s reality isn’t directly about racism, income, or gender. It’s about the balancing act they do to survive every day.

May 27, 2025 by Edith Campbell

Review and a Pairing: A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation

This intergenerational book spins each characters’ grief together and then, gives them a hero.

February 16, 2025 by Edith Campbell

Good Grief

What is on this list is a wide variety of contemporary Black authored books that take readers through someone else’s fictionalized experience with loss.

Interview: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

September 2, 2024 by Edith Campbell

What if you told someone you wish they were dead...and then they died?" the thinking of writing about grief was there -- I was processing how to process.