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“Grieving is a heartfelt outpouring, by turns sentimental and angry, that documents an extraordinary relationship and a couple’s shattered dream of growing old together.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer “The strengths of Grieving are its precise details and fluid movement through time — back and forth between the endless weeks of tests and treatments, earlier, happier stages in the Coughlins’ romance, and the undiscovered territory beyond Bill’s death ... If truth rings, Grieving is a beautifully constructed bell.” — Booklist “Grieving: A Love Story intertwines two tales — one about the couple’s precious and painful last months together; the other about Ruth’s devastation after Bill’s death. It’s really only one story, of course, about the way that love changes shape, molding itself to fit life’s contours.” — Detroit Free Press “Coughlin notes that bereavement brings about a narcissism that is nearly ‘pathological.’ In confessing her obsessional grief, spiralling depression and self-neglect, she wanted to reassure other bereaved people who are still setting the table for their dead husband, or waving when they see a car that looks like the deceased’s, that they are not insane.” — New York Daily News “What makes Grieving so compelling is its honest, real desperate immediacy, and the willingness of its author to struggle on the page, with her own confusion and pain without false heroism or literary posing. No one can tell you everything about grief; but Ruth Coughlin tells a great deal, and tells it beautifully, with humor, love, sorrow, frustration and hope.” — Detroit News “Moving ... Coughlin comes across not as a triumphant heroine but as a vulnerable human being torn by rage, confusion, and grief — one just beginning to find her way of bearing her existence.” — Kirkus Reviews Ruth Coughlin was an award-winning feature writer; she had been the book editor for The Detroit News since 1985. Before moving to Detroit in 1983, she worked in New York publishing. She is a past board member of the National Book Critics Circle, having served as vice president for publications for three years. She lived in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with her husband William J. Coughlin, an author, federal administrative law judge and novelist, until he passed away in 1991."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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