Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.

In her forties - a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role
- Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered
world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she
explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience
grief and transcend loss and,following her own remarriage, forms
a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional
ideas. Together, these friends summon the humor, resilience, and
striving spirit essential for anyone overcoming adversity.

Meet the Saturday Night Widows: ringleader Becky, an unsentimental
journalist who lost her husband to cancer; Tara, a polished mother of
two, whose husband died in the throes of alcoholism after she filed
for divorce; Denise, a widow of just five months, now struggling to
get by; Marcia, a hard-driving corporate lawyer; Dawn, an alluring
self-made entrepreneur whose; husband was killed in a sporting
accident, leaving two small children behind; and Lesley, a housewife
who returned home one day to find that her husband had committed
suicide.

  
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The women meet once a month, and over the course of a year,
they strike out on ever more far-flung adventures, learning to
live past the worst thing they thought could happen. They share
emotional peaks and valleys - dating, parenting, moving, finding
meaningful work, and reinventing themselves - while turning
traditional thinking about loss and recovery upside down. Through
it all runs the story of Aikman's own journey through grief and her
love affair with a man who tempts her to marry again. In a
transporting story of what friends can achieve when they hold
each other up, Saturday Night Widows is a rare book that will
make you laugh, think, and remind yourself that despite the
utter unpredictability and occasional tragedy of life, it is
also precious, fragile, and often more joyous than we recognize.

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