Unremarried Widow : A Memoir (Paperback)

Publishers Weekly,After four months of marriage, Henderson lost her husband, a 23-year-old Army pilot, in the Iraq war, and she recounts in this languid, heart-tugging narrative their love story. While she was crazy about Miles Henderson, after they met at a dance club in Tallahassee, Fla., in 2004, and were living together soon after, the author was initially against the invasion of Iraq, frustrated about being compelled to move frequently from one army base to the next, from North Carolina to Texas, and dispirited by long absences from her husband. In her deliberate build-up to the inevitable, Henderson plants small clues along the way to deepen the foreshadowing, such as a visit to a psychic named Suzanna, the sudden death of the author's own father in a flight accident when she was five, and Miles's dream of dying nine months before he died. Miles was deployed to Iraq and killed within a few months in an unexplained helicopter accident, along with his best friend and pilot John Priestner, leaving the author both blind-sided yet unsurprised, and both relieved and horrified by the rituals of Army protocol and mourning. In her fluid prose Henderson portrays a moving journey to selfhood that strikes the reader as authentic and emotionally honest. Agents: Ann Stein and Aitken Alexander, Aitken Alexander Assoc. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.