Kaia Gerber Shares Books on Grief After Brother Presley’s Death

Kaia Gerber is mourning her older brother Presley Gerber, who died in September at age 27, sharing her grief through poetry and literature on social media, Extra TV reported.

As toxicology reports remain pending and an official cause of death stays unreleased, the model and actress turned to books to process her absence.

• Kaia Gerber shared a reading stack featuring works on grief, including Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
• Extra TV reported that the actress posted a heartfelt digital tribute last month, featuring a childhood video and a poignant open letter to her late brother.
• An official cause of death for Presley Gerber has not been released yet since toxicology results are still pending.
• In a collaboration post with Library Science, Kaia expressed the power of reading, posting a picture of a book stack that featured Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking on top along with a quote reading, Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief, comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Gerber detailed her heartbreak in a social media carousel shared last month. She noted that language fails to capture the magnitude of losing her brother.

She wrote of her brother, “You were my ultimate teacher while you were here now I’m left wondering what I could possibly be taught in your absence.” The post highlighted a stack of literature that included Roger Housden’s Risking Everything, Sloane Crosley’s Grief Is for People, and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.

Additional volumes in the reading stack included Yiyun Li’s Things in Nature Merely Grow, Marie Howe’s What the Living Do, and Joe Brainard’s I Remember. Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough’s From Here to the Great Unknown and David Kessler’s Finding Meaning rounded out the selection.

Author	Book Title	Focus Area
Joan Didion	The Year of Magical Thinking	Memoir of Loss
Michelle Zauner	Crying in H Mart	Grief and Identity
David Kessler	Finding Meaning	The Sixth Stage of Grief

Gerber emphasized her deep bond with Presley in her published letter. She described him as her protector and the one true love of her life.

Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death continues as authorities await final toxicology results. Extra TV confirmed that no official determination has been finalized.