These Books Transport You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away – The New York Times

Then Mike got sick and died, and Seager, now a widowed mother of two, came unglued. The merciless seesaw of her grief makes for harrowing reading. Hour by hour, she writes, I felt either broken or bulletproof. In time, a group of six other widows, meeting every other Friday, moving from house to house like emotional squatters, gradually helped Seager return to the world.
The second half of her story gleams with insights into what it means to lose a partner in midlife, and just as the widows hel…

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