This Angel on My Chest: Stories

✍ Scribed by Pietrzyk, Leslie

• Book ID: 109209388
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780822944423

✦ Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2015 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE

Selected by Jill McCorkle

This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss.

Based on the author�s own experience of losing her husband at age thirty-seven, this book explores the resulting grief, fury, and bewilderment, mirroring the obsessive nature of grieving. The stories examine the universal issues we face at a time of loss, �as well as the specific concerns of a young widow: support groups, in-laws, insurance money, dating, and remarriage. This Angel on My Chest ultimately asks, how is it possible to move forward with life while �till death do you part� rings in your ears�and, how is it possible not to?

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