Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

â€œA frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the piecesâ€ (People) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didionâ€™s The Year of Magical Thinking and Carole Radziwillâ€™s What Remains.

Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan, but when she met Miles, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty Southern towns, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love, she was ready to embrace it.

But when Miles was training and Artis was left alone, she experienced feelings of isolation and anxiety. It did not take long for a wifeâ€™s worst fears to come true. On November 6, 2006, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artisâ€”in official military termsâ€”an â€œunremarried widow.â€

In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his deathâ€”from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new loveâ€”but also reveals how Milesâ€™s death mirrored her own fatherâ€™s, in a plane crash that Artis survived when she was five years old and that left her own mother a young widow. Unremarried Widow is â€œa powerful look at mourning as a military wifeâ€¦.You can finish it in a day and find yourself haunted weeks laterâ€ (The New York Times Book Review).

Country	USA
Author	Artis Henderson
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Henderson, Artis
EAN	9781451649291
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	1451649290
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	272
PublicationDate	2015-01-13
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2015-01-13
Studio	Simon & Schuster

Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

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