What does it mean to lose someone? To answer this timeless question, bestselling author Siddharth Dhanvant shanghvi draws on a string of devastating personal losses – of his mother, of his father and of a beloved pet – to craft a moving memoir of death and grief. With surgical detachment and subtle feeling, shanghvi charts the landscape of Bereavement as he takes the reader down the dark, winding path to healing. Clear-eyed and intimate, loss is the first volume of non-fiction by one of India’s most beloved writer of life experience.