Book : What Comes Next And How To Like It A Memoir - Thomas,

-Titulo Original : What Comes Next And How To Like It A Memoir

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In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating.What comes next? What comes after the devastating loss of a spouse? What form does a lifelong friendship take after deepest betrayal? How does a mother cope with her child’s dire illness? Or the death of a cherished dog? And how to like it? How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? How to find solace and pleasure? How to sustain and be sustained by our most trusted, valuable companions? Exquisitely observed, lush with sentences you will underline and reread, What Comes Next and How to Like It is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many of life’s greatest challenges and inimitable rewards. It is also the story of the friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago. Through marriages, child raising, and the vicissitudes and tragedies that befall them both, this rich bond has helped her face whatever comes next with courage, exuberance, and grace. Review What Comes Next and How to Like It is a beautifully felt, deeply moving memoir, the best work yet by a woman who has already done some of the best work in the field. Its about friendship, and the shocks friendship can endure when its true and deep. Its about the rueful pleasures (not to mention the jarring pitfalls) of getting old. Its about enduring tragedy, sickness, and loss. Thomas speaks of these big things by scattering the ordinary jewelry of everyday life: loving dogs (even when they chew your most precious possessions), Googling old boyfriends, rescuing an orphan mouse, and trees that try to grow in the crack between boards. Small speaks for large here, in a calm voice that talks to the mind while it fills the heart. Abigail Thomas is the Emily Dickinson of memoirists, and so much of this books wisdom is between the lines and in the white spaces. It may only take you two days to read, but the impact will stay with you for a long, long time. Abigail Thomas fills memory with living breath. -- Stephen KingThis may be the most honest book Ive ever read, by one of the most beautiful writers I know-- dizzyingly truthful, often funny, lyrical, wise. -- Anne LamottI would follow Abigail Thomas on any journey she ever takes. The arrival of a new book from this master is always a cause for celebration, because I know right away that Im about to learn something important about the art of writing and the art of living, both. I come to her books as though to a feast, and leave fulfilled and transformed. -- Elizabeth GilbertThis episodic memoir is full of love and life. Readers will identify with the feelings and the people even as they realize how different they are, how wondrous. -- Eloise Kinney Booklist“Bighearted…frank and funny andunpretentious…[Thomas’s] gratitude and amazement abound.” -- Catherine Newman More“A former book editor and memoirists accountof the remarkable 35-year friendship that sustained her through the trials andtribulations of adult life…A moving andeloquent memoir.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Irreverent, wise, and boundlessly generous. -- Elissa Schappell Vanity Fair“Infused with her signature sense of mordancy and wit… For Thomas, the only option is to remain in the present, in the never-ending now.... exquisite.” -- David Ulin Los Angeles Times“Full of love, humor, anger and a certain amount of uncertainty…. Although most of these passages are very short and read almost like journal entries, the overall picture Thomas conveys is that of the deep, soul-level relationships that exist between her and her family and with Chuck, connections that make all the highs and lows of life livable. -- Lee E. Cart Shelf Awareness“A keenly observed memoir…[Thomas] writes of the changes aging brings us all and of coping