Young Widower

John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in...
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Author: John W. Evans
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Young Widower by Evans, John W.

Young Widower

$45.18

Young Widower

$45.18
Author: John W. Evans
Format: Paperback
Language: English
John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life together was shattered. Katie became separated from the group. When Evans finally found her, he could only watch helplessly as she was mauled to death by a brown bear. In such a love story, such a life story, how could a person ever move forward? That is the question Evans, traumatized and restless, confronts in this book as he learns the language of grief, the rhetoric of survival, and the contrary algorithms of holding fast and letting go. His memories of Katie and their time together, and the strangeness of his life with her family in the year after her death, create an unsentimental but deeply moving picture of loss, the brutality of nature, and the unfairness of needing to narrate a story that nothing can prepare a person to tell. Told with unyielding witness, elegance, and care, Young Widower is a heartbreaking account of a senseless tragedy and the persistence of grief in a young person's life. John W. Evans, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, teaches creative writing at Stanford. His award-winning work appears in Slate, the Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Rumpus.

Author: John W. Evans
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.48w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780803249523


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Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2014
Foreword 02/27/2014

About the Author

John W. Evans, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, teaches creative writing at Stanford. His award-winning work appears in Slate, the Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Rumpus.


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