A Widow's Guide to Becoming a Handyman - Couverture souple

Huehn, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948509431 ISBN 13 : 9781948509435

Editeur : Ice Cube Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Widow's Guide to Becoming a Handyman is part grief memoir, part immigrant story, and part how-to-guide. This is a story of premature death and emotional wreckage that uses the narrator's old house as its foundation. Grief is as palpable as a hammer hitting a nail and doesn't come at all the way a reader might expect as the narrator methodically cares for her quirky old farmhouse's many needs following her husband's sudden death: a leaky roof, rotten windows, mold and frozen pumps and pipes. The narrator repeatedly tries and fails to order grief into a linear process with five distinct stages, but instead finds grief to be as disorganized and messy as the garage and sheds full of tools left by her deceased husband.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Huehn was born in a sleepy German town in south central Minnesota at the confluence of the Minnesota and Cottonwood Rivers. The town was home to my immigrant parents where I was raised speaking German and a love of German culture was imbedded in me at a cellular level. At a music festival in my home town, I met a German singer and after a three year transatlantic relationship (before email, Facebook and WhatsApp!) I moved to Germany, where I lived for three years. We got married during those three years and then returned to live in Northfield, Minnesota on a small hobby farm.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ice Cube Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948509431
• ISBN 13: 9781948509435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
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• Personne responsable: non disponible