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The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates—each of whom has written a memoir of spousal loss. In each chapter, Berman gives an overview of the writer's life and art before widowhood, including her early preoccupation with death, and then discusses the writer's memoir and her life as a widow. He discovers that writing was, for all of these authors, both a solace and a lifeline, enabling them to maintain bonds with their lost loved ones while simultaneously moving on with their lives. These memoirs of widowhood, Berman maintains, reveal not only courage and resilience in the face of loss, but also the critical role of writing and reading in bereavement and recovery.

American literature --- Widows in literature. --- Bereavement in literature. --- Widows' writings. --- Widowhood --- Autobiography --- Life cycle, Human --- Writings of widows --- Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- Authorship.

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Social work with widows --- Orphans --- Widows --- Women --- Orphans and orphan-asylums --- Children --- History. --- Services for --- Protestant Orphan Society (Dublin, Ireland) --- DPOS (Protestant Orphan Society) --- D.P.O.S. (Protestant Orphan Society) --- Orphaned children

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Developmental psychology --- Primary groups --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Sociology of occupations --- Community organization --- Economic relations. Trade --- Economics --- Firms and enterprises --- Business management --- Social geography --- History --- Gender --- Social geography --- History --- Trade --- Singles --- Identity --- Power --- Labour --- Entrepreneurs --- Working-class women --- Participation --- Relationships --- Cities --- Widows --- Book --- Economy --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe