Orem Library

A high school English teacher describes the profound changes she endured in the aftermath of her beloved husband's fatal accident, relating her struggles as a newly single parent of an infant and how she tapped the power of literature and imagination to work through her grief.

"Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young nation"--

When hercollege-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what she wants or even who she is. Searching for answers, she leaves New York for the solitary woods of Vermont. Removed from the familiar, cocooned in the natural world, her only companions a new dog and a compass, she hopes to develop a sense of direction--both in the woods and in her life. Hiking unmapped...

Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. For McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. Today remarried and mother of four children, her new circumstances bring her extraordinary joy but are also tinged with sadness over the loved ones she's lost. Here she offers a tragicomic exploration of the tension between finding happiness and holding space for the unhappy experiences...