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A Widow's Story

Joyce Carol Oates

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Mar 27, 2011 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

Shelves: death, relationships, healing, happiness

I was kicking myself for choosing this book to read over spring break. What was I thinking? Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award-winning author, suddenly and unexpectedly loses her husband of more than forty years and she falls apart. This book is a memoir of the months she spent after his death trying to use words, the one thing she has always been able to count on, to find a way to live again.

As a person who has studied happiness for many years, Oates did everything wrong. She secluded hers ...more

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May 07, 2012 Kent Winward rated it really liked it

Joyce Carol Oates provides a remarkable insight into grief and loss. All I could think as I was reading the book was on how fragile existence is and how much the writing life accessories and accentuates the loss and the fragility.

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