{"product_id":"oh-im-a-widow-barbara-rady-kazdan-9781683151135","title":"Oh. I'm a Widow: Working Through Life After a Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelocation by choice. Retirement by accident. Widowed by surprise. Oh. I'm a Widow chronicles my journey after the year in which these life-changing events occurred. At sixty-seven, my husband died soon after we'd moved to the Washington D.C. area for my career-capping job. On the day he died I had no family or friends nearby and no professional engagement. The book recounts the steps I took, the help I found, and the emotional and practical struggles I encountered as I built a new, full life. It presents essays written over years, some published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving, Loss and Healing, in Contagious Optimism and in its sequel, 10 Habits of Truly Optimistic People, and in print and online journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike most books on widowhood, this is more about living than grieving.Written in a conversational voice, the book offers practical, empathetic support to widows. After losing someone close, Oh. I'm a Widow aims to help readers recover, rebuild, and realize a full new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat Other Readers Think\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Rady Kazdan's book Oh. I'm a Widow pulled me in and held me rapt as I watched the confident retiree's life unravel upon losing her husband of forty-two years. Though her three grown children rally to support her, she's stunned as she stares into an empty future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSprinkled with research studies, humor, and quotes from literary and philosophical greats, such chapters as 'Get Up, Get Dressed, Now What?, ' 'Kissing a Lot of Frogs;' and 'Paddling Upstream and Down' guide us along her rocky path. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Barbara stumbles to move forward, her honesty about what's gone right-and wrong-in her marriage and her life, make her story real and relatable. [Her] attempts at finding community, support groups, a purpose, and a new partner will resonate with divorcees, empty nesters, aging singles, all of us who have been thrust into worlds we're not prepared to enter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarian Mathews Clark, author of These Doors and Sixty Something and Flying Solo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Rady Kazdan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1683151135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781683151135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Culicidae Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Barbara Rady Kazdan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906895270143,"sku":"9781683151135","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57526936-828e-4dac-b7ef-07159c564923.jpg?v=1748771695","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oh-im-a-widow-barbara-rady-kazdan-9781683151135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}