Speed Grieving
The One
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Speed Grieving
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Narrated by:
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Allison Ellis
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By:
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Allison Ellis
About this listen
From a suddenly widowed but resourceful young mother comes this darkly funny, poignant, and true exploration of love, loss, and starting over - with a plan.
When Allison Ellis’s husband died of an unexpected heart attack, there was no playbook for a thirty-three-year-old widow with a breastfeeding infant. In her grief, she devised a practical strategy: find a new husband within twelve months. What transpired was a year of mourning, manic dating, and breaking hearts across Seattle on a deadline mission to heal her own.
Allison Ellis’s Speed Grieving is part of The One, a collection of seven singularly true love stories of friendship, companionship, marriage, and moving on. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting, with or without company.
©2019 Allison Ellis (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.This is a beautifully written short (and true) story of a young mother widowed suddenly at 33. She does not have the luxury of allowing herself to just fall apart and so she becomes a mother on a mission and this is her story.
I find this both beautiful and sad. Beautiful because it reflects how grief is not tolerated or understood today. Sad because we, women in particular, but also society as a whole, have lost the ability to hold space for others in grief. We no longer know what it takes to simply be there and show support. We are terrified that somehow grief is contagious. It is raw, primal and unpredictable and scares people away.
I felt this struggle with having to hide your grief very accurately reflected. It hits the nail on the head.
The author does a fantastic job narrating. It is soft, calming, feminine... and allows you to understand deeper than if one were to just read. I was reminded of Cinelle Barnes' Essay on Freedom, Malaya. The narration and tone was very similar.
Highly recommend. Loved the dark humor.
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