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Widowish
- A Memoir
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- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.
When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn’t end with his death.
Left to resume life without her beloved husband and raise their young daughter on her own, Melissa soon realized that her and Joel’s love lived on. Melissa found she didn’t fit the typical mold of widowhood or meet the expectations of mourning. She didn’t look like a widow or act like a widow, but she felt like one. Melissa was widowish.
Melissa’s personal journey through grief and beyond includes unlikely inspiration from an evangelical preacher, the calming presence of some Real Housewives, and the unexpected attention of a charming musician.
A modern take on loss, Widowish illuminates the twists of fate that break our world, the determination that keeps us moving forward, and the surprises in life we never see coming.
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- N. N. Fowlds
- 02-28-21
She had me until The Other Joel
Very compelling memoir, artfully narrated. Unfortunately, when she started singing the praises of a con man like Joel Osteen, she lost me big time.
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- Elisa R. Goodman
- 01-26-22
A little too "SELF-INDULGENT-ISH" for me...
I think this book would be better read or listened to if the author had read it herself - it might have made her story more relatable. The choice for the narrator to stand in and "perform" this tragic story of being left a widow when her lovable and athletic husband suffers from MS – and then tragically contracts the West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite - leaving her with the daunting task of raising a teenager alone did a disservice to the material - as Rachel Botchan's voice, manner of delivery, and everything else the way she told the story felt annoying, arrogant, snobby, entitled, privileged, and over the top.
Of course, she was reading the author's words who came from a life of some privilege and Hollywood - but it was hard for me to really care. I lost my husband at an early age from a tragic and unfortunate circumstance so I understand the randomness of a loss - and that something horrible can happen unfairly to someone who was a great guy. Yes, it is tragic to lose the love of your life - but not everyone's story is that compelling or needs to be a book.
I understand that the act of writing it down is cathartic and healing and that working through your grief by putting pen to paper is a great avenue for release - but the way this audible book is presented, I was surprised it was produced in this way. She is not the only one who has a tragic story - so pick your memoirs well. If you like these types of memoirs, I'd suggest listening to Nora McInery's Ted Talk on Loss and Grieving - or listen to her amazing podcast, "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" - or her books, No Happy Endings (really good) or, It's Okay to Laugh (It's Okay to Cry Too). Nora was a much younger widow at 32 who was left with a 2-year old son to raise on her own. She lost her father, had a miscarriage of her 2nd child, and lost the love of her life to brain cancer when he was 35 - all in the space of 6 weeks. She started a "Young, Hot Widow's Club" as she started dating immediately. She felt guilt and shame that it might be too soon to date and certainly filled the profile of feeling "Widow-ish" – as she had to contend with what people might think - as she got pregnant and then married the man she was dating. But Nora's books are funny, very honest and you are not left feeling judgy. She continues to celebrate her first husband's life and death in a very public way. You root for her instead because she feels real - which is different from a story with a dramatic Hollywood ending.
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- Howard_a
- 06-03-23
Well done touching story of widowhood
Great story, serious reality. The book had me tearing up a lot. The details of her husband’s death was so sad, but necessary to understand what she went through. As a widower, it really touches home for me. There are so many people who lose their spouses at a young age. I love her courage in producing this wonderful book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-23-23
This was an emotionally reassuring read!
Being a young widow myself in my 30’s with children, I really identified with all of the emotions and self doubt as the author! I had started this book and when it became very real emotionally, I did have to take a break from this book, but I did come back to it a few months later and felt so glad that I did! It was awesome to hear someone verbalize some of the same feelings, thoughts, and fears that I have had to and still deal with being in a very similar situation! 🥰🥰
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- JB
- 12-10-22
Liked the story
But I really didn’t like the reader. If it was a different reader I’m sure it would have made a big difference.
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- Deloris
- 10-14-22
I Can Relate!
I too am a widow, now in my fifth month without my husband. I am well beyond my forties but I can relate to the emotions of the writer. I shall never forget my husband, and the strange thing is that I love him more each day! Hold to memories, I say, but at the same time not to be engulfed in them in a way that will interfere with progression. I know my husband would not want me to be a lifelong mourner any more than I would have wanted it for him. Time has been my best friend, and I believe that each day is getting better and better. Yes, I talk to him from time to time, I cry sometimes, but I still feel his presence. Each morning I touch his pillow and say "Good morning!" to him. People have memories of him as a super kind person to everyone he met. That helps to hear it, and it brings tears to my eyes, especially when I look into theirs and know it is a sentiment from their hearts.
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- escoocoo
- 08-31-22
I LIKED THIS!!
I enjoyed listening to this story of a young(ish) woman with her teenage daughter who suddenly and tragically loses her beloved husband. A well written very sad, but also sometimes humorous, account of the initial loss and then all her struggles and difficulties as she grapples with how to navigate her life afterwards. Good book!! Enjoyed it much more than I thought I would….☺️
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- DB
- 02-20-22
Grief and living on as a 40 yr old
A widow's caring story of living with spouse's illness and young death. qol, grieving.
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- Kimberly Shalom
- 06-12-21
A must-read for young widows
The memoir is a well documented journey of an early 40-year old woman with a 13-year old daughter.
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- MellyMel63
- 03-18-21
A Memoir that reads like fiction.
I was hesitant to read this due to the title and what my expectations were for the books subject matter, I was wrong. This was a lovely piece of literary that reads like a fiction story. I loved the pace of the book and the timeline, I wanted to know what was going to happen next. It wasn’t bogged down in medical jargon or a long drawn out goodbye. The love for the author and her husband read like a modern day love story; not to schmaltzy with the right amount of profound love and partnership. I would love to know how the story continues with Melissa and Marcos, the relationship with her daughter, Sophie and her dealing with the loss of her Dad as she matures. It was a real understanding of the grief someone deals with after someone they love dies. Would make a great movie.
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- Tara Chapman
- 05-22-21
Fantastic
Was a fantastic read. Very highly recommend. Moving, honest, informative, very interesting read indeed. .
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By: Robert Kolker
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No Happy Endings
- A Memoir
- By: Nora McInerny
- Narrated by: Nora McInerny
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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No Happy Endings is an audiobook for people living life after life has fallen apart. It’s an audiobook for people who know they’re moving forward, not moving on. It’s an audiobook for people who know life isn’t always happy, but it isn’t the end: There will be unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy. As Nora reminds us, there will be no happy endings - but there will be new beginnings.
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Feminist crap
- By Jeri LeAnne Howard on 08-24-19
By: Nora McInerny
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All of This
- A Memoir of Death and Desire
- By: Rebecca Woolf
- Narrated by: Rebecca Woolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Rebecca and Hal had a normal marriage. Four kids, a house, jobs that paid the bills. They also had resentment that sometimes teetered on hatred, years of no sex, a handful of affairs, and long-simmering anger. Then one night, Hal felt knots in his stomach. Several doctor appointments later, he discovered he had stage four pancreatic cancer, and four months later, he was dead. He was 44. All of This chronicles the months before Hal’s death—and Rebecca’s rebirth after he was gone.
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excellentt!
- By S. DAWN HANSCOM on 11-26-22
By: Rebecca Woolf
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The Art of Leaving
- A Memoir
- By: Ayelet Tsabari
- Narrated by: Ayelet Tsabari
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl. With fierce, emotional prose, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful meditation about the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief, the universal search to find a place where we belong, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.
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An Emotional Masterpiece
- By Alex on 04-16-20
By: Ayelet Tsabari
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Eat a Peach
- A Memoir
- By: David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Narrated by: David Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles David Chang’s switchback path. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.
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So many threads coming into a wonderful tapstery.
- By Suzie on 09-12-20
By: David Chang, and others
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In the Shadow of the Valley
- A Memoir
- By: Bobi Conn
- Narrated by: Bobi Conn
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Bobi Conn was raised in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia. She remembers her tin-roofed house tucked away in a vast forest paradise; the sparkling creeks, with their frogs and crawdads; the sweet blackberries growing along the road to her granny’s; and her abusive father. An elegiac account of survival despite being born poor, female, and cloistered, Bobi’s testament is one of hope for all vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls caught in the cycle of poverty and abuse.
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Hard Pass
- By Kathryn Liggett on 06-13-20
By: Bobi Conn
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins—aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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A story you've never heard before
- By Kelley Cox on 04-19-20
By: Robert Kolker
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No Happy Endings
- A Memoir
- By: Nora McInerny
- Narrated by: Nora McInerny
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
No Happy Endings is an audiobook for people living life after life has fallen apart. It’s an audiobook for people who know they’re moving forward, not moving on. It’s an audiobook for people who know life isn’t always happy, but it isn’t the end: There will be unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy. As Nora reminds us, there will be no happy endings - but there will be new beginnings.
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Feminist crap
- By Jeri LeAnne Howard on 08-24-19
By: Nora McInerny
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All of This
- A Memoir of Death and Desire
- By: Rebecca Woolf
- Narrated by: Rebecca Woolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Rebecca and Hal had a normal marriage. Four kids, a house, jobs that paid the bills. They also had resentment that sometimes teetered on hatred, years of no sex, a handful of affairs, and long-simmering anger. Then one night, Hal felt knots in his stomach. Several doctor appointments later, he discovered he had stage four pancreatic cancer, and four months later, he was dead. He was 44. All of This chronicles the months before Hal’s death—and Rebecca’s rebirth after he was gone.
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excellentt!
- By S. DAWN HANSCOM on 11-26-22
By: Rebecca Woolf
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The Art of Leaving
- A Memoir
- By: Ayelet Tsabari
- Narrated by: Ayelet Tsabari
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl. With fierce, emotional prose, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful meditation about the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief, the universal search to find a place where we belong, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.
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An Emotional Masterpiece
- By Alex on 04-16-20
By: Ayelet Tsabari
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Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
- By: Shane Burcaw
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, 20-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace.
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Uplifting
- By PhinzPride on 04-12-20
By: Shane Burcaw
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Keep Moving
- Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
- By: Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Maggie Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones", started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?
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This is not THAT Maggie Smith
- By Scribezilla on 10-16-20
By: Maggie Smith
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Lost & Found
- A Memoir
- By: Kathryn Schulz
- Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz’s beloved father—a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee—went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.
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Bored to death
- By Amazon Customer on 03-15-22
By: Kathryn Schulz
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Normal People
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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Difficult, but Worth It
- By kdiz on 04-03-20
By: Sally Rooney