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Un-remarried Widow (2000)

by Artis Henderson(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Artis Henderson writes an intimate and painful portrait of her grief after her husband is killed while deployed to Iraq.Artis and Miles Henderson, an Army pilot, were just beginning their lives together when tragedy struck. All was not idyllic -- Artis was having trouble adjusting to Army life and beginning to wonder whether she'd made a mistake. But in her grief, Artis feels again, this time painfully, the love she always had for her husband and the promise of their life together, now forever gone.I've read military memoirs before, but not one that describes so starkly the moment when a military spouse is notified of a spouse's death. "Women will tell me later that they knew. Just knew," she writes of the moment the two soldiers in dress uniform arrive. "They knew the min... moreute they woke up. They knew as they cleaned their houses in fits of clairvoyant anticipation. They knew as they dressed and waited on the couch for the soldiers to come. Did I know?"This slim book is divided almost equally between the couple's life together and the author's grief after her husband's death. Because you know so much about Artis and Miles, you grieve along with the author. Some books don't tell you enough about life before you get to the death and grief (e.g., The Wave) and some are written from too detached a position to evoke emotion in the reader (e.g., Saturday Night Widows). The only distraction for me was the author's habit of conveying long stretches of dialog that detracted from the momentum and interest of the story. But that's a minor quibble, and nothing that should keep you from picking up this lyrical and gripping book.
review 2: This memoir by a young Army widow is a powerful read. Learned a lot about military culture, including the protocol surrounding. The book describes how the author meets and falls in love with a Western cowboy pilot and then, after only a few months of marriage, finds herself a widow. The memoir also connects her story with that of her mother, who also was widowed young. All in all, the book is well written and is a hopeful narrative about relationships, grief and uncertainty. less

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