Saturday Night Widows Saturday Night Widows

Saturday Night Widows

The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

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Publisher Description

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.

   In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world.  In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas.  Together, these friends summon the humor, resilience, and striving spirit essential for anyone overcoming adversity.

   Meet the Saturday Night Widows: ringleader Becky, an unsentimental journalist who lost her husband to cancer; Tara, a polished mother of two, whose husband died in the throes of alcoholism after she filed for divorce; Denise, a widow of just five months, now struggling to get by; Marcia, a hard-driving corporate lawyer; Dawn, an alluring self-made entrepreneur whose husband was killed in a sporting accident, leaving two small children behind; and Lesley, a housewife who returned home one day to find that her husband had committed suicide.

   The women meet once a month, and over the course of a year, they strike out on ever more far-flung adventures, learning to live past the worst thing they thought could happen.  They share emotional peaks and valleys – dating, parenting, moving, finding meaningful work, and reinventing themselves – while turning traditional thinking about loss and recovery upside down.  Through it all runs the story of Aikman's own journey through grief and her love affair with a man who tempts her to marry again.  In a transporting story of what friends can achieve when they hold each other up, Saturday Night Widows is a rare book that will make you laugh, think, and remind yourself that despite the utter unpredictability and occasional tragedy of life, it is also precious, fragile, and often more joyous than we recognize.

Look for Becky's new book, Off The Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge. 

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
January 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Lenexa mouse ,

Thought provoking

As a widow of three years, I was amazed that these women had many of the same feelings I do. I would love to find a group like this to help me through my journey. How refreshing it was for me to discover they felt the same things I feel. It makes me feel not so quite alone. I think I now have the courage to move out of my comfort zone and face life head on once again.

Rljar ,

Saturday Night Widows

This is the book I have needed for five years. I lost my first husband to the devastating illness, ALS. I have since remarried, but have felt so much guilt over being happy, while Frank is gone. As often as I have told myself he is in a better place, and would be delighted with my happiness, that old-fashioned image of the lonely widow, pining for her lost love sticks in my brain. I, like Becky, woke up one morning, knowing a need to move on. I wish I had been creative enough to find a group like hers to sustain me, and I, them.

Curls6 ,

Perfect for me!

I lost my husband 11 months ago. I chose to work my grief journey from day 1. I read about this book in Good Housekeeping and it is truly a God sent blessing. It helped me put words to feelings I've had. It comforted me to know I was not alone with some of my feelings. Initially I struggled with the word widow and felt suffocated realizing it now described me. I choose to give it new meaning. The book is a great shot of 'go on, move forward and let go'. Thank you Ms. Aikman - I am forever grateful.

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