tagged w/ Bereavement
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“Your wife is killed by a cashew (anaphylactic shock), but there isn't time to grieve because your toddler son is always at your heels—wanting to be fed, to be played with, or to sleep next to you all night long. A change of pace seems necessary, so you decide to visit your parents in order to attend your twenty-year high school reunion. What begins as a weekend getaway quickly becomes a theater for dealing with the past—a past that you will have to re-imagine in order to have any hope of a future for you and your son.”
--Mark Yakish, A Meaning for Wife
“Toward the end of the novel there is a gutsy shift in narrative tone that lends the ending a sense of closure. In recent years, women writers such as Joan Didion and Meghan O’Rourke have published nonfiction memoir accounts of grief. In his debut novel Mr. Yakich provides the male perspective. Recommended to anyone who has experienced loss.”
David Cooper, New York Journal of Books“Your wife is killed by a cashew (anaphylactic shock), but there isn't time... more
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Recently-bereaved people have heart rhythm changes which may make some of them more vulnerable to health problems, say researchers.
link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11709223Recently-bereaved people have heart rhythm changes which may make some of them more... more
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My daughter is senior in the J school at Mizzou and she wrote this short piece on the passing of our dogMy daughter is senior in the J school at Mizzou and she wrote this short piece on the... more
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A short trailer pod for longer film about paranormal activity at Castle Keep in Newcastle. A short trailer pod for longer film about paranormal activity at Castle Keep in... more
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In this film I speak to my Mum about how getting a dog helped in the healing process following the death of my Grandma, her mother.
Written, directed and edited by Daniel StephensIn this film I speak to my Mum about how getting a dog helped in the healing process... more
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Jon Lowndes longed for one last cup of tea with his late father Ian - and found a way to make his dream come true.Jon Lowndes longed for one last cup of tea with his late father Ian - and found a way... more
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