“Shoofly Pie” by Naomi Shihab Nye is a fictional story that follows the story of a girl, Mattie, who has recently lost her mother. Mattie is trying to cope with her grief while also balancing it with her new job at the Good For You Restaurant. At this restaurant, there were three employees that had recently lost a loved one: Mattie, Johnny and Riyad. The story concentrates on their relationships with each other and the difficulties of personal grief. The characters and plot of “Shoofly Pie” are realistic and relatable because of the different ways they deal with suffering and their development throughout the passage. One example of the reality of this story is how the characters deal with their grief in different ways. No one reacts to loss