More than a month after the death of her older brother, Presley Gerber, Kaia Gerber is turning to books as she navigates her grief. The 25-year-old recently shared a look at her collection of memoirs, poetry, and guides on coping with loss.
Kaia Gerber shares Joan Didion’s note on grief on Instagram after brother Presley’s death
The Shards actress shared the image on Instagram on November 8. She posted it in collaboration with Library Science, the book platform she co-founded with Alyssa Reeder. The post featured a stack of 11 books exploring grief and loss. Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking sat at the top of the pile. Other titles included Marie Howe’s What the Living Do and Joe Brainard’s I Remember. The collection also featured From Here to the Great Unknown, written by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough.
Kaia also shared an excerpt from Didion’s celebrated memoir. The passage read, “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves.”
The post came nearly a month after Kaia shared a heartfelt tribute to Presley on Instagram. Alongside a series of personal photos and a video, she expressed her love for her older brother, writing, “I love you the bluest, to the moon and back and back again, forever big brother.”
Presley, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, died at a rehabilitation facility on September 20. Reports indicated that he had entered the facility the previous evening. Police investigated his death as a suspected overdose after emergency calls reportedly mentioned a possible overdose and cardiac arrest. However, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner deferred determining the cause and manner of death pending further testing. The investigation remains ongoing.
