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Should I Still Wish: A Memoir

Should I Still Wish: A Memoir

Paperback

Series: American Lives

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803295227
ISBN13: 9780803295223
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jan 1 2017
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife's violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with his in-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small red X on a map, Evans musters the courage for a cross-country trip. From the Badlands to Yellowstone to the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, Evans's hope and determination propel him even as he contemplates his vulnerability and the legacy of a terrible tragedy.

Should I Still Wish chronicles Evans's efforts to leave an intense year of grief behind, to make peace with the natural world again, and to reconnect with a woman who promises, like San Francisco itself, a life of abundance and charm. With unflinching honesty Evans plumbs the uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions of a paradoxical experience in this love story, celebration of fatherhood, meditation on the afterlife of grief and resilience, and, ultimately, showcase for life's many profound incongruities.


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