Speed Grieving
The One
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Speed Grieving
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Narrated by:
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Allison Ellis
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Allison Ellis
From a suddenly widowed but resourceful young mother comes this darkly funny, poignant, and true exploration of love, loss, and starting over - with a plan.
When Allison Ellis’s husband died of an unexpected heart attack, there was no playbook for a thirty-three-year-old widow with a breastfeeding infant. In her grief, she devised a practical strategy: find a new husband within twelve months. What transpired was a year of mourning, manic dating, and breaking hearts across Seattle on a deadline mission to heal her own.
Allison Ellis’s Speed Grieving is part of The One, a collection of seven singularly true love stories of friendship, companionship, marriage, and moving on. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting, with or without company.
©2019 Allison Ellis (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Continue the series
Intitally could not work out why there were so many tonal shifts. It starts off with the sudden tragic death and then, as a coping mechanism, the urge to find another partner - and fast; but then is diverts course into her real coping with the grief cycle, before entering some bizarre dating experiences.
It was late on when I realised this had to be an actual memoir, but by then I was not sure I cared that much for the narrator and her experinces. However, there are passages so powerful that it made you pause to reflect/agree or gasp, and for that I will definitely give this another read.
Oh its a memoir.
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