Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
How Lives Go On
There Are No Words
Losing the Marriage
Young Americans
The Legend of a Life
Flush
The Number Line
The Circle Game
Erasing the Room
Cognitive Bandwidth
Tying the Knot
Rehearsals for Departure
Alone to Tell Thee

About the Author

John W. Evans, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, teaches creative writing at Stanford. His award-winning work appears in Slate, the Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Rumpus.

Reviews

"A tragic story told with such grace and artistry that the complex exploration of grief is finally revealed as redemptive. The honesty of John Evans's writing is unfaltering and deeply impressive." - Kevin Casey, author of A State of Mind "This book brims with unforgettable images and moments, but Evans's greatest achievement is allowing readers to see his wife, Katie, as he did - not as a saint or as a martyr, but as a passionate and dynamic and flawed woman whom he deeply loved." - Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun "A riveting and devastating chronicle of the tragedy that brutally ended a life and a marriage, and the aftermath of grief. Told with uncompromising candor and poetic precision, Young Widower is an unforgettable memoir of unrelenting beauty." - Patricia Engel, author of Vida and It's Not Love, It's Just Paris