

This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.”

“In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family – parents, husband, sons – were swept away by a tsunami. “”A Widow’s Story” is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath.” A Widow’s Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him about the ebb and flow of sadness about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing.”Ģ. “The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning.
