{"product_id":"ghosting-a-widows-voyage-out-9780960097760","title":"Ghosting: A Widow's Voyage Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarried at a young age to an older man, neither he nor she doubted that he would predecease her; but she discovers that there is no preparing for the loss a beloved. Their marriage was a passionate 35 year love affair, as if the odds against its longevity engendered a rare intensity. She discovers that love has no boundaries, grief is not eternal and ?her husband's motto \"Life is a love story\" is so very true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAscher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband's illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief - her voyage out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wonder of Ghosting is that Ascher, like Montaigne, calls forth Everyman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAbout previous books: \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePat Conroy on Dancing In The Dark: \u003cbr\u003e \"One of those books that wakes you up to the life you have failed to live, ...What a wonderful book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Publishers Weekly on The Habit of Loving: ?\u003cbr\u003e \"With her sharp, unflinching eye, she discovers wonder and truth at our very doorsteps.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Boston Globe on Landscape Without Gravity: \u003cbr\u003e \"Her honesty touches the reader's heart, opens the scars of old wounds, and helps heal them...wrenching, insightful...compelling\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eudora Welty on Playing After Dark: \u003cbr\u003e Barbara Ascher has a serious mind and the gift of a light touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pushcart Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780960097760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barbara Ascher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334678094005,"sku":"9780960097760","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_67114426-fd30-4dc2-97ea-18a36325036b.jpg?v=1636434012","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ghosting-a-widows-voyage-out-9780960097760","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}