“Epilogue” by Anne Roiphe

Author Anne Roiphe’s latest book, Epilogue: A Memoir is about her day-to-day challenges of widowhood after losing her husband of nearly 40 years. She chronicles her efforts at “remaking” her life, adjusting to an everyday existence without her spouse.

WBUR has a podcast interview with Roiphe about her book and I think the comments on the site are just as interesting.

More than one commenter is male and reminds us that men lose spouses, too. It makes me wonder what my dad is going through after these couple of years without my mother.

If you’ve been around here for a while, you know my dad isn’t one to talk about personal matters, he grew up on a farm, had a very strict mother, he is also a Marine and the idea of “sharing feelings” really doesn’t compute with him. I make myself feel better by thinking about the fact that my mother was sick for a while and he learned to do many things by himself before she died, so perhaps he didn’t have as many things to get used to as some people who are widowed do.

(Thanks, Meredith!)