From a suddenly widowed but resourceful young mother comes this darkly funny, poignant, and true exploration of love, loss, and starting over-with a plan.
When Allison Ellis's husband died of an unexpected heart attack, there was no playbook for a thirty-three-year-old widow with a breastfeeding infant. In her grief, she devised a practical strategy: find a new husband within twelve months. What transpired was a year of mourning, manic dating, and breaking hearts across Seattle on a deadline mission to heal her own.
Allison Ellis's Speed Grieving is part of The One, a collection of seven singularly true love stories of friendship, companionship, marriage, and moving on. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting, with or without company.
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Moments after my husband died, I thought about how I might replace him. 1
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(Amazon Original Stories, 30 July 2019, 51 pages, ebook, borrowed from borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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I don't often give the single stories from the Amazon Original Series top marks, they're so short there's not enough time to really connect with the text. Speed Grieving proved otherwise. This is the longest tale in The One and the best by far. There is as much emotional connection, drama and connection as you'd expect to find in a full-length novel. People deal with grief differently. Not everyone will go into deep mourning. Some people don't cry, well not in front of others anyway. There is no correct way to grieve. This heart-breaking tale explores the author's way or coping or not coping when her husband dies unexpectedly. She keeps it together at first, determined not to be one of those women who go to pieces. But gradually, the true pain in her heart chips away at her hard mask and she lets herself feel whatever she's supposed to feel. This is very sad at times but so full of love. An outstanding piece of writing.
