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Simon & Schuster
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Artis Henderson; Miles
256 pages
ISBN: 1451649282
EAN: 9781451649284
Kindle: B00BSAZ57E
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure.
Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan, but when she met Miles, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty southern towns, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love, she was ready to embrace it.
But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone, her feelings of isolation and anxiety competed with the warmth and unconditional acceptance sheβd found with Miles. She made few friends among the other Army wives. In some ways these were the only women who could truly empathize with her lonely, often fearful existenceβ yet they kept their distance, perhaps sensing the great potential for heartbreak among their number.
It did not take long for a wifeβs worst fears to come true. On November 6, 2006, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artisβin official military termsβan βunremarried widow.β A role, she later realized, that her mother had been preparing her for for most of her life.
In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his deathβ from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new loveβbut also reveals how Milesβs death mirrored her fatherβs death in a plane crash, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.
In impeccable prose, Artis chronicles the years bookended by the loss of these menβeach of whom she knew for only a short time but who had a profound impact on her life and on the woman she has become.
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