This is NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Kea Miyak and Natisse. Today, we've got two books

wrestling with the ramifications of death and grief, including a book about the long-lost

diaries of a young man who died on 9-11 that you'll hear about a little bit later. Our first book

takes a look at all the things that we might find when we

run towards the grief we have avoided. Laurel Brateman was only a kid when her dad was

diagnosed with a deadly bone cancer. Assuming he had little time left, the family said their

goodbyes. But her father went on to live for another 14 years. Years after his death, Bratman, now an adult,

realizes that she has been running from her bad feelings and so goes on a quest to experience

and transform her grief. Here she is talking to NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer about her new memoir,

what looks like bravery. In the U.S., National Security News confirmed talking to NPR's Sasha Fifer about her new memoir, What Looks Like Bravery.

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Laurel Bratman was still in high school when she experienced one of the most devastating things that can happen to a child. Her father died.

That affected the rest of her young adult life. Nearly three decades later, she's written a

memoir about that experience. It's called What Looks Like Bravery. Bratman says she had a happy childhood,

growing up on an idyllic ranch in California with donkeys and peacocks and avocado trees.

But she had to keep a brave face as she watched her father get sick.

She told me her parents never tried to hide his illness from her.

Well, my dad was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, which is a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer. My parents absolutely

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