Where I Live Now

✍ Scribed by Butala, Sharon

• Book ID: 110006084
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476790480

✦ Synopsis

An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss.
*"It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." —*Sharon Butala

In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End, and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal comes a revelatory new book from one of our beloved writers.

When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled the ranchlands of southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes of books, clothes, and keepsakes. But a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory—of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family.

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