Delivering a fiercely personal account of her battling
the before and surviving the after of losing her husband
to cancer, Malden takes us on a journey through grief to
gratitude that alerts an entire generation: this is not
your mother's widowhood. High-school sweethearts who
later married, screenwriting partners, and lucky parents,
Malden and her husband Laurence Starkman truly led a
charmed life, until the day the doctor said, "Mrs.
Starkman, sit down," and normal crashed down around them
with the thud of the cosmic other shoe. As "A Year of
Magical Thinking" for the younger set, it reminds us that
women are not only widowed in old age - according to the
Census Bureau, Baby Boomers are starting to die off in
large numbers. This compelling memoir tells in clear,
direct, honest prose the story of a marriage as it moves
through one partner's illness and finally death. It is an
exploration of grief too soon.
