Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between

By: Alice Goode-Elman and Kelli Dunham and Penelope Dugan and Melanie K Finney and Ellen Schrecker and Raquel Ramkhelawan and Maxine Marshall and Lauren Vanett and Alice Derry and Michele Neff Hernandez and Elisa Clark Wadham and Deborah E Kaplan and P. C. Moorehead and Mimi Schwartz and Anne Bernays and Edie Butler and Debby Mayer and Sonia Jaffe Robbins and Barbara Marwell and Maggie Madagame and Roni Sherman Ramos and Doris Friedensohn and Nancy H Womack and Joan Michelson and Tracy Milcendeau and Merle Froschl and Andrea Hirshman and Molly A McEneny and Heather Slawecki and Kathleen Fordyce and Patricia Life and Nancy Shamban and Susanne Braham and Alice Radosh and Parvin Hajizadeh and Jean Y Leung and Joan Gussow and Kathryn Temple and Carrie L West and Lise Menn and Christine Silverstein and Tara Sabharwal

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Synopsis: Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet each of these women faced the same basic dilemma: how to go on living when a part of you is gone. Widows’ Words is arranged chronologically, starting with stories of women preparing for their partners’ deaths, followed by the experiences of recent widows still reeling from their fresh loss, and culminating in the accounts of women who lost their partners many years ago but still experience waves of grief. Their accounts deal honestly with feelings of pain, sorrow, and despair, and yet there are also powerful expressions of strength, hope, and even joy. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780813599557
Related ISBNs:: 9780813599533
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 10/20/19
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Psychology, Social Studies
Grade Levels:: Eleventh grade
Reading Age:: 16 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Nan Bauer-Maglin