After the Flowers: Life Beyond Widowhood
Editorial Reviews
Jewish World News
"Can someone survive widowhood and have a sense of humor? Or, as her subtitle says, 'Life beyond widowhood' can and does happen. These essays are warm, they are personal, they are candid and they address women who have one thing in common whether they are Jewish or not. There are times one really has to laugh and maybe that's healthy to do so. If you are a widow or know a new widow, this would make a wonderful gift."
From the Publisher
Widowhood and All It's Pieces
Alice Grossman Daniels writes candidly about widowhood in After the Flowers--Life Beyond Widowhood. Full of sound advice and uncensored feelings and reactions, this book reconnects a shell-shocked survivor of widowhood to herself and the life ahead of her.
Written in a warm and friendly voice, this is a very personal journal or collection of small essays on the practical business of coping with widowhood. The author lost her husband and friend, fond lover and good provider, when he was only fifty-eight years old. Left alone, Alice was forced to learn about--and compelled to write about--loneliness, finances, shopping for one person, redefining friendships with women and couples, relearning the art of romance, and restructuring relationships with her adult children. In the course of the book she turns her talent for writing and expressing a common experience into a career as a newspaper columnist, and she maintains her sense of humor as she develops a wise perspective on living alone.
Perhaps the sense of humor, which runs throughout the book, even in the saddest moments, is the book's greatest asset. It teaches us a lesson about life: that life involves suffering, that humor comes from pain, that humor is what makes the pain survivable, and that humor eventually survives the pain.
This book is practical as well. It is a personal journal, but it relates to a common experience shared by many women, and by many men. Anyone learning the ropes of widowhood--as well as families, advisors, caretakers, counselors, and friends--will be served by reading this book.
After the Flowers: Life Beyond Widowhood
After the Flowers: Life Beyond Widowhood,Alice Grossman Daniels,Fithian Press,1564741737,1933-,Case studies,Daniels, Alice Grossman,,Family,Gardening,Gardening/Plants,General,Sociology,Sociology Of Women,United States,Widowhood,Widows,Women's Studies - General,Daniels, Alice Grossman
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