Good Grief

by Lolly Winston | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0446694843 Global Overview for this book
Registered by princess-peapod of San Luis Obispo, California USA on 8/28/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by princess-peapod from San Luis Obispo, California USA on Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Some widows face their loss with denial. Sophie Stanton's reaction is one of pure bafflement. "How can I be a widow?" Sophie asks at the opening of Lolly Winston's sweet debut novel, Good Grief. "I'm only thirty-six. I just got used to the idea of being married." Sophie's young widowhood forces her to do all kinds of crazy things--drive her car through her garage door, for instance. That's on one of the rare occasions when she bothers to get out of bed. The Christmas season especially terrifies her: "I must write a memo to the Minister of Happier Days requesting that the holidays be cancelled this year." But widowhood also forces her to do something very sane. After the death of her computer programmer husband, she reexamines her life as a public relations agent in money-obsessed Silicon Valley. Sophie decides to ease her grief, or at least her loneliness, by moving in with her best friend Ruth in Ashland, Oregon. But it's her difficult relationship with psycho teen punker Crystal, to whom she becomes a Big Sister, that mysteriously brings her at least a few steps out of her grief. Winston allows Sophie life after widowhood: The novel almost indiscernibly turns into a gentle romantic comedy and a quirky portrait of life in an artsy small town. At all stops on her journey from widow to survivor, Sophie is a lively, crabby, delightfully imperfect character.

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." --Virginia Woolf

Released 14 yrs ago (3/20/2010 UTC) at passing to a friend for a benefit garage sale in Nipomo, California USA

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If you found this book while in the area of San Luis Obispo, CA. feel free to come by and check out Joe Mommas which houses our bookshelf! We also hold our local meetups on the first Tuesday of each month at 5pm there, please come join the fun! The books on the shelf are free to for you to read, enjoy and pass along to another!

a friend is having benefit garage sale for the American Cancer Society (Relay For Life in Arroyo Grande,CA) and I am donating some books and other items hoping to bring some money in for a fabulous cause!
I had another copy of this that I read and enjoyed under the alternative title (Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted)

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