Black Widow - A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

Leslie Gray Streeter

Little, Brown and Company

2020

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 0316490717

BLACK WIDOW begins with Leslie Gray Streeter detailing her kiss of death. As the Palm Beach Post writer shared a passionate moment with her 45-year-old husband, Scott, he suffered a fatal heart attack. To manage her grief, Leslie turned to her column, writing a series of comic, personal essays about her experiences as an African-American woman and her too-brief marriage to a white Jewish man. Her memoir about love, loss, race, marriage, and adopting a child is sharp, moving, and unexpected.

It is, in her own words, "A bit like The Year of Magical Thinking, but funnier. And with more black people."