Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author’s wife and a candid account of the following year of madness and grief. With Claire’s death, Jeff Porter tries to imagine life without her but struggles with the bewilderment that follows. Like Max Porter’s novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, this is an unpredictably funny account of heartbreak, as if to say there’s something about the magnitude of loss that troubles even earnestness.