Grieve Yourself

How do you grieve someone you used to wish would die? Mackenzie Adams isn't close with her dad. Not anymore. After trying her whole life to navigate his volatile alcoholism, she finally cut ties two years ago and they haven't spoken since. So, when she gets a call on New Year's Day that he has died, she thinks she should be fine. She is fine... except for the fact that she's definitely not.

A quarter-life coming-of-age story about loss, love, friendship, family, and staying alive, "Grieve Yourself" follows Mackenzie through the year that she loses her dad for the last time and has to find herself for the first.

Nicky Davis is a queer, biracial, Black writer, living and working in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about telling stories that ask us to reckon with the ugly, complicated beauty of being alive. She also writes plays, poems and essays. Her film Junebug (dir. Winter Dunn) premiered in 2020. "Grieve Yourself" is her first novel. Find her online @nickydavis13 on Instagram or on her blog www.theconversationalite.com.