Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

from JenHartling

Although being a widow is something you can't understand unless you are one, Saturday Night Widows gives us a glimpse of what it means to lose your spouse. You would assume that this would be a devastatingly sad read. While there are sections that will break your heart the overall message is a po...

from slavenrm

First and as always, I received this book because it arrived at my doorstep for the purposes of review. Would I spend my own money on this book? No. Unless it was a gift for a rich widow who can probably buy her own copy. As a narrative construct, this is a nice story. The author lost her husband...

from whitreidtan

When you get married, you don't envision losing your spouse, at least until you're both very old and grey. You imagine a long and happy life together. But not everyone is granted this ideal. Some people lose their spouses at quite a young age. Young widows are not what we expect though and so the...

from debs4jc

The author was widowed young and found herself not fitting it with the traditional sort of widows group. She got tired of being handed information about the stages of grief and decided to branch out and form her own kind of support group. She wanted the focus of the group to be on living and tryi...

from Dawn1361

"Grief is a process of finding comfort" and what a journey that can take. We are a culture that doesn't handle interacting well with grievers, as evidenced with Becky's expulsion from a grief support group. Disillusioned but yearning for connection, Becky embarked upon creating her own group, a g...