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Good Grief Paperback – April 4, 2005
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Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton wants to be a good widow—a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she’s been drowning her sorrows in ice cream and showing up to work in her bunny slippers and bathrobe. Determined to start over, she moves to Ashland, Oregon, where she finds herself in the middle of a darkly madcap adventure involving a 13-year-old pyromaniac and an alarmingly handsome actor who inspires a range of feelings she can’t cope with—yet.
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- Print length367 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 4, 2005
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100446694843
- ISBN-13978-0446694841
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- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (April 4, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 367 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0446694843
- ISBN-13 : 978-0446694841
- Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches
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Using the grief process as an outline for the chapters of this book, denial, anger, depression, bargaining and finally, acceptance, we experience the life of Sophie Stanton in the year immediately following her husband's death. She spends some time in grief groups and is not afraid to take advice and try to move forward, never letting you forget the weight of her loss. And while attending a group session, she learns from the counselor: "It's a myth that people experience grief for a certain amount of time and then they're over it." I think this is the most important message contained within the pages of this quick and witty read.
And I do mean witty. Winston has a wonderful way with words. For example, through the first person narrative of her main character she deduces that "tears are to a grief counselor what straight teeth are to an orthodontist." Each chapter is filled with fresh dialog and truthful, heartfelt observations. I highly recommend reading this book.
Michele Cozzens, Author of A Line Between Friends and The Things I Wish I'd Said.
Author Lolly Winston has created the story of a young woman widowed at age 36.
Ms. Winston is a wonderful writer, and a woman who's amazingly insightful. In consequence, most of her observations on loss are piercing and touching.
One result of her creative skill is that the reader can lose oneself in the prose, not focusing on how stupid the story actually is.
Some of the problems: Woman's husband dies of cancer... woman has a little nervous breakdown immediately following... woman loses excellent public relations job in Silicon Valley... woman moves to a town in Oregon so small that it considers Medford the nearest city... because she knows one person in this town... woman rents wonderful old house... gets job as waitress... is so terrible as waitress that she's transferred to a scut job in the kitchen... realizes there that she's a gifted chef... sets up her own food business... to overwhelming praise... and oh, yes, has the most sought-after man in her little town fall in love with her.
All in seven months? Oh, please!
There's much more to GOOD GRIEF but all of it, too, is equally implausible, especially considering the time frame in which it's placed.
Still, no one who finishes this novel will come away with anything less than admiration for Ms. Winston, as well as a new understanding of the pain of widowhood.
It may be that a 'new' widow, someone within a year of the loss of their spouse, may not be able to laugh at the humor. But as a woman well past her loss, I found much of it uproariously funny and freeing.
It is not all about loss and sadness. It is also about change, movement, excitement, fear and hope.
My only critique is that many women may find it unrealistic that the main character is able to accomplish so much within the first year of widowhood. That is often not the case.
INOTE: IT IS NOT SOMETHING TO SEND A PERSON WHO HAS JUST SUFFERED A LOSS. BUT I HAVE SUFFERED MANY LOSSES - AND I RELATED TO THIS BOOK - LOKKING BACK.
I ENJOY AL HER BOOKS.
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I was sick in bed over Xmas and new year so I read it then.
Strangely, I didn’t connect with Sophie. I didn’t find this very genuine and it all just felt a bit flat.







