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Author: Rebecca Daniels
Publisher: Sunbury Press
ISBN: 979-8888192047
Author: Rebecca Daniels
Publisher: Sunbury Press
ISBN: 979-8888192047
“It could be a 'regular'
day, or it could be a tough one to get through. These anniversaries
are unpredictable, and I feel like this one could be a big one. . .
.especially since it’s another Saturday and it’s supposed to be
sunny, just like it was the Saturday you died. I’m hoping that I’ll
be surrounded by my prisms all day.”
A harrowing and heartfelt account of author Rebecca Daniels' struggle with grief and returning to normal after the death of her husband.
I have read two of Daniels' other books in the past, and both were absolutely stunning, but this one moved me in a way no other book has in a long while. If you have ever lost someone close to you, you will know the black shadow of grief that hangs over your life afterward.
Daniels' found this out all too soon when her husband of only six years passed away suddenly from a massive heart attack. In that one moment – the moment that she found her husband, Skip dead in his favorite chair – Daniels' life went from 'before' to 'after.'
When a person is dealing with grief, you often hear the phrase, 'the new normal.' This is something that Daniels' talks about in the book as a way of describing how her 'normal' after Skip passed was different from the normal before. Things will never truly be the same for her, but she was able to return to a different sense of normalcy in a way that left her able to remember Skip fondly and with contentment.
This is a beautiful memoir and one that I feel should be read by anyone who has lost someone close to them. Daniels' describes the grieving process so well and validates everything that you might be feeling as you struggle to find your way to your 'new normal.'
About Rebecca Daniels
Award winning Author, Rebecca Daniels (MFA, PhD) taught performance, writing, and speaking in liberal arts universities for over 25 years, including St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, from 1992-2015. She was the founding producing director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, directed with many professional Portland theatre companies in the 1980s, and is the author of the groundbreaking Women Stage Directors Speak: Exploring the Effects of Gender on Their Work (McFarland, 1996, 2000) and has been published in multiple professional theatre journals.
After her retirement from teaching, she turned her focus to creative non-fiction and began her association with Sunbury Press with Keeping the Lights on for Ike: Daily Life of a Utilities Engineer at AFHQ in Europe During WWII; or, What to Say in Letters Home When You’re Not Allowed to Write about the War (Sunbury Press, 2019), a book based on her father’s letter home from Europe during WWII.
Her second book with Sunbury, Finding Sisters: How One Adoptee Used DNA Testing and Determination to Uncover Family Secrets and Find Her Birth Family explores how DNA testing, combined with traditional genealogical research, helped her find her genetic parents, two half-sisters, and other relatives in spite of being given up for a closed adoption at birth.
Her newest book with Sunbury (2024) is a memoir about her late-in-life second marriage and sudden widowhood called That Day and What Came After: Finding and Losing the Love of My Life in Six Short Years. To find out more about Rebecca and her books, please visit her website at https://rebecca-daniels.com/