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28
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39/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Rebecca Woolf
Publisher:
HarperOne
Date:
August 16, 2022
A "grief-and-relief" memoir tackling all the things we're too afraid to say about death, marriage, sex, and how the death of a husband can lead to a rebirth.
What The Reviewers Say
... unapologetic and unbridled.
Woolf loves her symbols — and she’s good at them.
... eschews any such flattering postmortem revisions in favor of the messy, freeing truth.
From the opening salvo, Woolf makes it clear to readers that this is not going to be a traditional grief memoir. Rather, it is a forthright portrait of one marriage, and the things that came after. From digging desperately through her jewelry drawer in search of the wedding ring she took off years ago to having frank discussions about her dating and sexuality with her four children after their father dies, Woolf takes readers on a journey that is nothing if not unforgettable. Is it comfortable or comforting? No, but it is brutally honest and empowering tale of a woman who emerges from her marriage and her husband’s final illness like a butterfly from a chrysalis—not neatly or painlessly, but nonetheless beautiful to behold.
