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The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Crown
February 2013
On Sale: January 22, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0307590437
EAN: 9780307590435
Kindle: B008QLXQGK
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Non-Fiction
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared
beginning.
her forties – a widow, too young, too
modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make
sense of her place in an altered world. In this
transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores
surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief
and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms
a group with five other young widows to test these
unconventional ideas. Together, these friends summon
the humor, resilience, and striving spirit essential for
anyone overcoming adversity.
Meet
the Saturday Night Widows: ringleader Becky, an
unsentimental journalist who lost her husband to cancer;
Tara, a polished mother of two, whose husband died in the
throes of alcoholism after she filed for divorce; Denise, a
widow of just five months, now struggling to get by; Marcia,
a hard-driving corporate lawyer; Dawn, an alluring self-made
entrepreneur whose husband was killed in a sporting
accident, leaving two small children behind; and Lesley, a
housewife who returned home one day to find that her husband
had committed suicide.
The women
meet once a month, and over the course of a year, they
strike out on ever more far-flung adventures, learning to
live past the worst thing they thought could happen.
They share emotional peaks and valleys – dating, parenting,
moving, finding meaningful work, and reinventing themselves
– while turning traditional thinking about loss and recovery
upside down. Through it all runs the story of Aikman's
own journey through grief and her love affair with a man who
tempts her to marry again. In a transporting story of
what friends can achieve when they hold each other up,
Saturday Night Widows is a rare book that will make
you laugh, think, and remind yourself that despite the utter
unpredictability and occasional tragedy of life, it is also
precious, fragile, and often more joyous than we recognize.
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