This new memoir titled “Epilogue” by Anne Roiphe, USA Today describes it as: “ a searing memoir that details her struggle to cope with the loss of her husband three years ago.”
The reviewer also notes:
“Epilogue is a running narrative, with no clearly defined chapters, index or photographs. In a nod to the psychoanalytic case study, perhaps, people are identified only by single initials. (Her husband is "H.") Children, friends and Internet dates get the same treatment.”
Publishers Weekly states:
“Thoughts of suicide comfort her as her former sense of independence evaporates. She struggles to manage her finances, decide where to live, keep up with the contents of her refrigerator and learn countless tasks that had always been H's.
Courtship, sex and gender roles confound her as she ventures to date men she meets through Match.com and the personal ad that her daughters place on her behalf. She considers her role in her family, her circle of friends, her new sisterhood of widows and the broader world in which she has no right to complain.
In poignant flashes of everyday moments and memories, Roiphe tells an unflinching and unsentimental story of widowhood's stupefying disquiet, of surviving love and living on.”
Click here for the USA Today review. Harper is the publisher.
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