The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
10 best books like The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir (Jonathan Santlofer): Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting, Once More We Saw Stars, The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief, A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety, Listen to the Marriage, Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
| Author | Nell Irvin Painter |
| ISBN | 1640090614 |
How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seeing change, depending upon what is asked of the viewer? What does it mean when someone states (as one teacher does) that "you will never be an Artist"—who defines "an Artist," and all that goes with such an...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1524732710 |
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
| Author | Judy Goldman |
| ISBN | 0385543948 |
A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed.
Together
is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
| Author | Julie Yip-Williams |
| ISBN | 0525511350 |
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 0812996100 |
Mother, mother-in-law, grandmother--the Pulitzer-winning columnist and #1 bestselling author reflects on the roles we play throughout our lives, sharing personal stories and advice on the special joys and complexities of middle age.
It's a little challenging to suss out why exactly...
| Author | Jayson Greene |
| ISBN | 1524733539 |
Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into...
The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief
| Author | Nora McInerny Purmort |
From the host of the popular podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, comes a wise, humorous roadmap and caring resource for anyone going through the loss of a loved one—or even a difficult life moment.
In the span of a few weeks, thirty-something Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, lost her father...
| Author | Donald Hall |
| ISBN | 1328826341 |
“Hall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled ‘Essays After Eighty’ (2014) and now ‘A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety.’ They’re up there with the best things he did.” —Dwight Garner,
New York Times
From the former poet laureate...
| Author | John Jay Osborn Jr. |
| ISBN | 0374192022 |
A riveting drama of marital therapy
Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely...
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
| Author | Ann Hood |
| ISBN | 0393357538 |
From her Italian-American childhood, through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of good food. In Kitchen Yarns, pairing her signature humor and tenderness with simple, comforting recipes, Hood...
| Author | Nora McInerny Purmort |
| ISBN | 0062792407 |
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.
Life has...
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
| Author | Ariel Burger |
| ISBN | 1328802698 |
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD—BIOGRAPHY
Elie Wiesel was a towering presence on the world stage—a Nobel laureate, activist, adviser to world leaders, and the author of more than forty books, including the Oprah’s Book Club selection Night. But when asked, Wiesel always...
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
| Author | Allison Pataki |
| ISBN | 0399591672 |
A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future
Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
During a difficult year, acclaimed writer Susan Gubar celebrates her lasting partnership and the reciprocity of lovers in later life.
On Susan Gubar’s seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, she begins...
How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir
| Author | Kate Mulgrew |
| ISBN | 0062846817 |
In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for her parents.
They...
Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York
| Author | Joy Santlofer |
| ISBN | 0393076393 |
New York is hailed as one of the world’s “food capitals,” but the history of food-making in the city has been mostly lost. Since the establishment of the first Dutch brewery, the commerce and culture of food enriched New York and promoted its influence on America and the world by driving innovations...
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0451493931 |
From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.
For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
The Man I Never Met: A Memoir
| Author | Adam Schefter |
| ISBN | 1250161908 |
A powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media.
On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried, and Devon...
