In grief there were slow afternoons and swampy mid-day mornings of discombobulation there was waking with a leaden, burning heart and wondering why nature invented whimpering I watched myself as griever, as walker, as the woman who put brie on crackers and re-boiled water in the kettle five times If there is a “she” …
Month: May 2020
The “Widow Project” manuscript was the working title for the book described below that will be published with Routledge in 2021. Writing the Self in Bereavement: A story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience by Reinekke Lengelle BOOK SUMMARY To lose loved ones is our common fate. Yet death is something we frequently (and perhaps wisely) …