This Angel on My Chest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Angel on My Chest write by Leslie Pietrzyk. This book was released on 2015-10-29. This Angel on My Chest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss. Based on the author's own experience of losing her husband at age thirty-seven, this book explores the resulting grief, fury, and bewilderment, mirroring the obsessive nature of grieving. The stories examine the universal issues we face at a time of loss, as well as the specific concerns of a young widow: support groups, in-laws, insurance money, dating, and remarriage. This Angel on My Chest ultimately asks, how is it possible to move forward with life while "till death do you part" rings in your ears—and, how is it possible not to?
Admit This to No One
Admit This to No One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Admit This to No One write by Leslie Pietrzyk. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Admit This to No One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Year and a Day
A Year and a Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Year and a Day write by Leslie Pietrzyk. This book was released on 2009-10-13. A Year and a Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice's mother, without warning, note, or apology, deliberately parks her car on the railroad tracks, in the path of an oncoming train. In the emotional year that follows, Alice and her older brother find themselves in the care of their great aunt, forced to cope and move forward. Lonely and confused, Alice absorbs herself in her mother Annette's familiar rituals, trying to recapture their connection -- only to be stunned by the sound of her mother's voice speaking to her, engaging Alice in "conversations" and offering some insight into the life that she had led, beyond her role as Alice's mother.
Pears on a Willow Tree
Pears on a Willow Tree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pears on a Willow Tree write by Leslie Pietrzyk. This book was released on 1999-07-01. Pears on a Willow Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pears on a Willow Tree is a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and the lure of roots that both bind and sustain us all. The Marchewka women are inseparable. They relish the joys of family gatherings; from preparing traditional holiday meals to organizing a wedding in which each of them is given a specific task -- whether it's sewing the bridal gown or preserving pickles as a gift to the newlyweds. Bound together by recipes, reminiscences and tangled relationships, these women are the foundation of a dignified, compassionate family--one that has learned to survive the hardships of emigration and assimilation in twentieth-century America. But as the century evolves, so does each succeeding generation. As the older women keep a tight hold on the family traditions passed from mother to daughter, the younger women are dealing with more modern problems, wounds not easily healed by the advice of a local priest or a kind word from mother. Amy is separated by four generations from her great-grandmother Rose, who emigrated from Poland. Rose's daughter Helen adjusted to the family's new home in a way her mother never could, while at the same time accepting the importance of Old Country ways. But Helen's daughter Ginger finds herself suffocating within the close-knit family, the first Marchewka woman to leave Detroit for the adventure of life beyond the reach of her mother and grandmother. It's in the American West that Giner raises her daughter Amy, uprooted from the safety of kitchens perfuned by the aroma of freshly baked poppy seed cake and pierogi made by hand by generations of women. But Amy is about to realize that there may be room in her heart for both the Old World and the New.
Angel at Troublesome Creek
Angel at Troublesome Creek - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Angel at Troublesome Creek write by Mignon Franklin Ballard. This book was released on 1999-10-30. Angel at Troublesome Creek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When her Aunt Caroline dies under mysterious circumstances, Mary George Murphy can only discover the truth with the help of her Guardian Angel, Augusta Goodnight, who last visited Earth during World War II and still loves Swing music.
