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

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

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813599557
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 05/03/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 282
Sales rank: 760,465
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Nan Bauer-Maglin worked at City University of New York for almost forty years as a professor and administrator. She now volunteers for Girls Write Now and The Whitney Museum. She is the editor or coeditor of many books, including Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women Talk about the End of (Mostly) Long-term Relationships.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction     
Prologue: Expectant Widows                             
Alice Goode-Elman “What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir”                  
Kelli Dunham “The Queen Has Spoken”
Penelope Dugan “Living a Life”
Melanie K. Finney “Preparing for the Journey through Grief” Nan Bauer-Maglin “Deserted/Dumped for a Second Tim Recent Widows
Nan Bauer-Maglin “A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months”
“My Other Half: Raquel Ramkhelawan interviewed by Maxine Marshall” Lauren Vanett “The Cloak”
Alice Derry “’The Most Precious Fit’— A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed” Michele Neff Hernandez “On Grief”
Elisa Clarke Wadham “Wedding Rings”
Deborah E. Kaplan “The Afterlife of an Archive”
P.C. Moorehead “A Healing Garden”
Mimi Schwartz “You See, I Told You So!”
Anne Bernays “Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures   of Living Alone”
Long-Time Widows                      
Edie Butler “The Grief Convention”
Debby Mayer “10 Scary Things I Have Done Since My Husband Died”
Sonia Jaffe Robbins “Being Alone”
Barbara E. Marwell “Recreating My Life”
Maggie Madagame “Becoming Maggie”
Roni Sherman Ramos “Who I Am Revealed”
Doris Friedensohn “Losing the Artist, Living with His Art”
Nancy H. Womack “After the Aftermath”
Joan Michelson “Three Poems”
Unique Takes or Digging Deeper                                                             
Tracy Milcendeau with Merle Froschl, Andrea Hirshman, Molly McEneny, and Heather Slawecki “Widow-to-Widow”
Kathleen Fordyce “Parenting as a Widow”
Patricia Life “Memories of a Widow’s Daughter”
Nancy Shamban “Lost Acts…..”
Susanne Braham “Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing”
Alice Radosh “Synchroncity and the Secular Mind”
Parvin Hajizadeh “Mourning American-style”
Jean Y. Leung “The Rocks that Bind”
Joan Gussow “On Not Feeling Sad”
Kathryn Temple “What They Do Not Tell You”
Carrie L. West “Nine Things Resilient People Do After Losing a Spouse or Partner”
Lise Menn “Make Lemonade?!” Epilogue                                     
Christine Silverstein “The Missing Vow”
Acknowledgments
Tara Sabharwal “Artist’s Statement”
Notes on Contributors
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