A review by heyitsmesj
A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates

5.0

This is what you hope for in a memoir of loss: realness. Oates delivers in a raw depiction of her loss and first year of widowhood. Neat mantras of hope or resilience are not to be expected, nor are they in here. Instead, this text is a dance with every wife's fear, and the worst part, that life goes on when that fear is realized.