The Ghost Marriage: A Memoir

By: Kirsten Mickelwait

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Synopsis: At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she&’d dared to expect. Twenty-two years later, Steve has turned into someone quite different. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What&’s more, he&’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. So she divorces him—but after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. It&’s then that she finally understands: The man she&’d married was a needy, addictive person who came wrapped in a shiny package.As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife—which lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discovery—that life isn&’t limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 329 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781647420314
Related ISBNs:: 9781647420307
Publisher:: She Writes Press
Date of Addition:: 08/02/24
Copyrighted By:: Kirsten Mickelwait
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Psychology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.