Gianluca Elbert recommends Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015) by Max Porter.

“‘A sniff and a sneeze, and we’re gone’ – Death is simultaneously the most common and most alien aspect to life. We start going about our simple private lives, fall in love, and maybe start a family. Suddenly someone calls us “Mom” or “Dad” and incomparably more sudden, you are the one to tell them, “Mom is dead”. In mourning, we feel estranged from every-day-life’s banalities. All those super-strict rules and serious projects either mean nothing or everything, when you desperately grasp for a stability that remains.
Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is the author’s first published work. It presents the grief of a traumatised family, who is visited by a mythical Crow, a trickster-god, a vision of literary history, a capricious but caringly therapeutic absurdity. A strangely unique text, free in form, movingly all-too-human, weird and comically mundane. A new poetry that dazzles its reader with beautiful honesty.”