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cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Although this is technically a collection of short stories, it reads more like a novella describing the state of mind and experiences of a character. They involve reflections by a woman who lost her husband 7 years earlier after 18 years of marriage, although not all stories take place after he died. Mild spoiler: <spoiler>There are hints that he died as a result of medical malpractice, perhaps in the administration of some drug.</spoiler> The prose is both powerful and elegant, although I can understand that it may be difficult to digest, even depressing. I really began to feel for this lonely woman pondering what to do with the rest of her life. The last story will probably knock you back; it did me.<br><br>I want to reread it sometime; something I say about few books. However, I would not recommend it to someone who recently lost a loved one. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_149556879" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_149556879"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_149556879" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_149556879" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_149556879"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/MidwestGeek" target="_top">MidwestGeek</a> | Dec 29, 2017 | <a href="/review/149556879"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_149219422" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/10817074" data-workid="10817074" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Stunning prose, and surprisingly funny. I am surprised this author isn't more widely known. She certainly deserves to be. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_149219422" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_149219422"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_149219422" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_149219422" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_149219422"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/MichaelBarsa" target="_top">MichaelBarsa</a> | Dec 17, 2017 | <a href="/review/149219422"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_115691799" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/10817074" data-workid="10817074" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Michelle Latiolais has a different approach to writing short stories, and anyone looking for an action-packed adventure will be disappointed. This is highly reflective work seeping with thoughtful passages and poignancy. She’s adept at writing about individual moments that reflect and summarize greater life experiences. The best way to describe this book in a single word would be to call it “pithy.” It’s rich and thoughtful, incredibly well written, and a joy to read. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_115691799" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_115691799"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_115691799" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_115691799" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_115691799"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Neftzger" target="_top">Neftzger</a> | Jan 22, 2015 | <a href="/review/115691799"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_93877066" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/10817074" data-workid="10817074" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1934137308.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Rating: 4.5* of five<br><br><b>The Book Description</b>: BELIEVER BOOK AWARD FINALIST<br>�In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within.—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones<br><br>�<i>Widow</i> is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken and celebratory. Michelle Latiolais has given us the rarest item, a splendidly articulated masterpiece. —William Kittredge<br><br>�In this luminous collection of stories, the gifted Michelle Latiolais writes of loss in all its surprising manifestations. Widow is a devastation and a wonder.—Christine Schutt<br><br>�There is something mysterious about this book, as there always is in the writing that matters most. It eludes explanation. It illumines terrifying realities. Only because these pages seem nakedly willing to take the imprint of every emotion, no matter how ugly, do they possess this great beauty. —Elizabeth Tallent<br><br>The stories of <i>Widow</i> conjure the nuances of inner sensations as if hitting the notes of a song, deftly played across human memory. These meditations bravely explore the physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of tender insight and unflinching detail—reminding us that the inner life is best understood through the medium of storytelling. Among these stories of loss are interwoven other tales, creating a bridge to the ineffable pleasures and follies of life before the catastrophe. Throughout this collection, Latiolais captures the longing, humor, and strange grace that accompany life’s most transformative chapters.<br><br>Michelle Latiolais is the author of <i>Widow: Stories</i>, a <i>New York Times</i> Editor's Choice selection, and two previous novels, including [A Proper Knowledge], also published by Bellevue Literary Press. She is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California and an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine.<br><br><b>My Review</b>: “The Bryce Method” is named in honor of an online friend who introduced me to the technique, is a summary opinion, plus a short line or a quote from each story, together with a rating for the story. <br><br>It's a hard thing to write about grief and the grieving process. It's not a blank, featureless, trackless waste as is depression; grief is a living thing, a changing thing, as the death-in-life of depression is not. Latiolais observes the grief of her characters as they cannot: from the end, the outside, the culmination of a process. Nothing is the same, no one gets better, and no punches are pulled; but the blank and purposeless state of living through grief is, indirectly, shown from its end and thus from a place of hope. No. You will never be the same person. Yes, you will (after the pointless suffering of grieving) have to work hard to invent a new self. But you can, you can indeed...and that's the best message to give someone in this heap of pain and pile of misery.<br><br>"Widow" is first up, the title story, and a beautiful expression of the utterly disorienting loss of a mate:<br><blockquote>Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find....</blockquote>p10, paper edition<br><br><blockquote>She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.</blockquote>p13, paper edition<br><br><blockquote>Marianne Wiggins says it best in a novel of hers: To love someone is to agree to die twice in a lifetime, to outlive nothing. What happens when one outlives a spouse is a shelf-life, gourd-like existence, dumb fleshy pumps...</blockquote>p19, paper edition<br><br>Beautiful. True, speaking from my own experience as an AIDS widower of some 21 years. And yet marvelously unassuming and unshrill. I love it more for that. <b>5 stars</b><br><br>"The Long Table" examines the wreckage that an unhappy life flounders through to get to the simplest and most ordinary pleasures. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Boys" takes a grown-up couple to a male strip club, the man's idea of a treat for his lady-love; she experiences the last thing she expected, a meditative trip over the territory of motherhood. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Tattoo" packs a lot into a page and a half. A daughter remembers cruel words, a woman examines a man while he's unaware, two people communicate from glass-divided spaces. Gulfs that engulf...3 stars<br><br>"Pink" takes a woman who has lost a man into the strange world of a teacup and saucer exhibit, where she meditates on vaginas, labia, churches, and death. Very odd, and oddly affecting. <b>4 stars</b><br><br>"Place" accompanies a middle-aged widow early in her grieving to a church service for and by revolting little rich dweebs, a place she has come to feel something, anything, a mite of a bit of a corner of connection to people.<br><br><blockquote>...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that.</blockquote>pp47-48, paper edition<br><br><blockquote>For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart...she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the forceps scar across his cheek that she traced with her hand, his penis, its elegant sweep to the side, the preternaturally soft skin. One wants what one has loved, not the idea of love.</blockquote>pp53-54, paper edition<br><br>After contemplating the "moral" lesson of the story of Job, she leaves the church without speaking to or connecting with anyone save a fellow lost soul who looks longingly on her departure from the company of fools. <b>4.5 stars</b> <br><br>"The Moon" is a strobe-lit vision of the solitary future of a young woman in a featureless present. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Crazy" limns the searing moment when one knows that one's dear and beloved spouse is being unfaithful. <b>4 stars</b><br><br>"Involution" accompanies a young woman to the chocolatier where she buys marzipan angels. Why, I don't know, and what's more I don't care. 2.5 stars<br><br>"Caduceus" is best summed up in this quote: "She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need."<br><br>Yuh-huh. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Thorns" takes an awkward, intelligent woman on a coffee date with a very average man, and leaves her there. Nucelar waste is vitrified, and Dale Chihuly invoked. In most collections this would be a stand-out; here, 3 stars<br><br>"Gut" made me laugh out loud several times. It's the only self-narrated story, and it's not about grief or loss but rather about the odd and chancy ways life offers us bliss. A biological anthropologist marries an artist and printmaker, develops some daring ideas about how the human brain evolved after we learned to cook our food, and whisks her--despite her deep misgivings and repeated attempts to foist the gift onto someone else--to the jungles of Uganda to eat a chimpanzee diet for 8 hours a day. Straight. No breaks. <br><br><blockquote> Let me put it this way: Constipation was not a problem, but pooping while you ate was just not the kind of multitasking I was up to.</blockquote>p104, paper edition<br><br>After an attack of wind at being overfed on fruit leads to an amorous escapade and a subsequent request from her husband that she eat living termites off a stick he fetches from under their cot:<br><br><blockquote>...I looked into his blue eyes and they seemed as kind and loving and serious as ever. The acid came into my throat and I started to cry, deep throbs coming up out of my chest--the thought of divorce was so painful.</blockquote>p 107, paper edition<br><br>Fortunately for their marriage, it's a gag, and this marriage is saved. A lark, a pleasure, a light and airy trip into Before instead of a voyage into After as the others are. <b>4 stars</b><br><br>"Hoarding" plumbs the depths of frustration at being the unfunny partner of the dead life of the party. Bargaining with the gods to bring people to her door, preparing for ungiven parties and unreceived invitations with cupboards and pantries stuffed with goodies, falling flat in pursuit of connections outside her reach, she knows how much was taken from her but can't stop grabbing something, anything, the next thing, to fill the hole. <b>4.5 stars</b><br><br>"The Legal Case" brings a horrible, horrifying truth about law into sharp focus: You can't legislate decency or goodness, and human depravity finds a way to escape boundaries every time. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Breathe" is a riff on "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen, a young woman ironing the table linens and doing the laundry and thinking of the man sleeping in her bed, the grandmother burned in a forest fire, the revolting source of nylon, and then going to a bed she's too tired to care about. 3.5 stars<br><br>"Burqa" thinks of invisibility, of being just that bit too old and too over it to be relevant, even to one's child; a divorced woman living in a one-bedroom California apartment, how grisly a thought is that. Slight, in the end. 3 stars<br><br>'Damned Spot" doesn't feel like a story, so I don't class it as such. The author tells of her dear Bull Terrier named Damned Spot (she and her husband are bookish people, the joke appealed), and his journey through her marriage to its end, and his own death shortly afterwards. It's a moving story to a dog-lover, and a very sad end-of-life tale; but more than any other thing, it's a simple and direct and very clear statement of life's greatest need: To give and receive love. Absent that, there is no life, merely existence, and that is not and will never be enough. <b>5 stars</b><br><br>Hunt it up. Spend the fifteen bucks, less on Amazon. This is some excellent story-telling. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss9.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_93877066" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_93877066">2</span> <img title="2 members found this review helpful" id="rvi_93877066" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_93877066" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_93877066" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_93877066"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/richardderus" target="_top">richardderus</a> | Feb 8, 2013 | <a href="/review/93877066"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','10817074','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','10817074','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 4 of 4 </div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_e16f87f6', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_e16f87f6" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_d393da6d_link"><tr><td id="left">8 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'10817074'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">100</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23491" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_b1a32ebd" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23491" class="commentText">"Every story in this collection is uniquely enjoyable on its own terms...what unites them is Latiolais's brilliant use of language, wit, her placement of real people in real situations and a limitless compassion and understanding of human pain and joy."</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23491', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Shelf Awareness</span>, <span class="nowrap">Valerie Ryan</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23490" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_16b280c3" title="0.0 Stars" aria-title="0.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ></span></span><div id="brtext_23490" class="commentText">"Widow...continues to stick to my ribs. Latiolais writes about grief in such a raw way--she joins the general pantheon of No-More-Husband literature (high priestess: J-Did), but her style is unique as to be another genre altogether."</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23490', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Millions</span>, <span class="nowrap">Rachel Syme</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23489" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_133da318" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23489" class="commentText">"The linked stories in Michelle Latiolais’ Widow pulse with a surprising, offbeat erotic energy that eschews the traditional portrait of the lonesome, sex-deprived surviving spouse. These sharp narrative snapshots capture a woman who continues to let life in while letting go of her grief over her husband’s shocking suicide." </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23489', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Elle</span>, <span class="nowrap">Lisa Shea</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23488" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_55c20584" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23488" class="commentText">bawdy and gorgeously sensual. She is also archly imaginative and psychologically astute. . . . The humor and habits that hold couples together, the odd contracts we make with ourselves, loneliness, the social taboo against grief––all take potent form in Latiolais’ 17 intricate stories, finely patterned miniatures spiked with the unexpected."</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23488', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Booklist</span>, <span class="nowrap">Donna Seaman</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23487" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_cf9c701d" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23487" class="commentText">"Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get, but with a more modern edge to her tone, low graceful notes, not too much flash, perfect restraint and the feeling of contents under pressure. She could go off at any moment. In fact, you wish she would." </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23487', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Los Angeles Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Susan Salten Reynolds</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div id="u_d393da6d" style="display:none;"><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23486" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_b8d6b059" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23486" class="commentText">“Sublime . . . [Latiolais] manages to find something luminous in the broken shards—still sharp, still drawing blood—that remain in the wake of losing what could not feasibly be lost.” </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23486', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">San Francisco Chronicle</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23485" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_5a5adce0" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23485" class="commentText">“Bracing, exposed, ruthlessly mercurial . . . If part of the book’s beauty resides in its language, both its precision and its sheer, wild exaltation, another part — the greater part — resides in its insistence on shunning prettiness, etiquette, niceness, guile. . . . Somehow Latiolais brings [her] briefest of tales to an ending that made me cry. The book is absurdly sexy, too, in the way that truth can be sexy, and marks of ravage can stir us, and sweaty labors awaken appetite. The writing thrums with aggression and a lush, rooted sensuality. . . . the rewards here are enormous.”</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23485', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/books/review/Cohen-t.html?pagewanted=all" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New York Times Book Review</span>, <span class="nowrap">Leah Hager Cohen</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="23484" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_dbe71fcc" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_23484" class="commentText">“Incisive . . . Latiolais' radical love of language binds the entire book together . . . The inveterate readers among you may be asking yourselves, do I read this book or Joyce Carol Oates' book of stories about widows and her recent memoir about widowhood? And I say to you, read them all, but begin first with Michelle Latiolais.” </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/blpbooks">blpbooks</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'23484', 'workid':'10817074'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134274306/in-widow-stories-look-at-life-after-a-spouse-dies" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">NPR's "All Things Considered"</span>, <span class="nowrap">Alan Cheuse</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div><div class="sa_tools"><a href="#" onclick="$('u_d393da6d').toggle();$('u_d393da6d_sa').toggle();$('u_d393da6d_h').toggle();return false;"><span id="u_d393da6d_sa">show all</span><span style="display:none;" id="u_d393da6d_h">hide extra</span></a></div></div> </div></div></div><div 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' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_321fd04a' itemType='1' itemNum='10817074' fieldType='30' name='u_321fd04a' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For Joy Harris</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_295d3dac' itemType='1' itemNum='10817074' fieldType='25' name='u_295d3dac' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >She is sitting on the examining table wrapped in a paper gown, one of those dull pretty colors chosen for women, mauve, and she might as well be trying to cover herself with a refrigerator box, as the paper gown is all eaves and walls and encloses her like a shed or fallen timbers. She peers from this structure, the gown's neck up around her jaw, which she holds down so she can answer his questions without talking through a paper mask.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_166f42ed' itemType='1' itemNum='10817074' fieldType='27' name='u_166f42ed' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_d9660d31' itemType='1' itemNum='10817074' fieldType='26' name='u_d9660d31' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_5c25eb48" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >She knows she is beginning to marmorealize into that character called "widow," untouchable, dark, by definition unhappy, sexless. Her body is fighting for her, for some existence it recognizes as oxygen, water, sustenance.<br><br>So impossible to go to doctors.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_5c25eb48')" id="link_u_5c25eb48">(Click to show. 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It is not a review.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdescription'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The stories of Widow conjure the nuances of inner sensations as if hitting the notes of a song, deftly played across human memory. These meditations bravely explore the physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of tender insight and unflinching detail. Among these stories of loss are interwoven other tales, as if reflections from a different phase of existence, creating a bridge to the ineffable pleasures and follies of life before the catastrophe. 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