Smell the Blue Sky

young, pregnant, and widowed

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Death/Grief/Bereavement, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Valerie Ihsan ISBN: 1230000198302
Publisher: Willow Bench Books Publication: November 21, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Valerie Ihsan
ISBN: 1230000198302
Publisher: Willow Bench Books
Publication: November 21, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

The day Valerie found out she was pregnant with her second child was the day her husband died. He’d fallen asleep driving. She didn’t know how to be a widow. Widows were old, with bunions. Not 26, and pregnant. She moved cross-country from Massachusetts to Oregon, delivered her baby, and sought catharsis in journaling and art. And then there was the dating. Somehow that seemed scarier than trying the spirit medium. During her spiritual journey, she discovered that falling in love again wasn’t a betrayal, and soon enough, she was able to wear grief with grace.

Smell the Blue Sky is a grief memoir for women that shares one woman’s grief process and how she emerged from the darkness, stronger and wiser. Smell the Blue Sky won the BRAG Medallion award for the Best Self-Published books in 2014.

 

ASK AN AUTHOR:

Q: Why did you write this book?

**A: ** As a military widow, when I lost my husband I wanted to read about other people who'd experienced loss and grief like mine, and survived it. I wanted to know how to become someone new, so I didn't have to feel so terrible. But I wanted to do that without forgetting the memories or letting go of them. I wanted to build new relationships and question my spirituality and listen to new music and finish school and love again, but I didn't know how to do that without feeling sick with betrayal. So I wrote this book for other widows wondering the same. I wrote this book to make sense of the death. I wrote to share with others what grief looks like.

 

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The day Valerie found out she was pregnant with her second child was the day her husband died. He’d fallen asleep driving. She didn’t know how to be a widow. Widows were old, with bunions. Not 26, and pregnant. She moved cross-country from Massachusetts to Oregon, delivered her baby, and sought catharsis in journaling and art. And then there was the dating. Somehow that seemed scarier than trying the spirit medium. During her spiritual journey, she discovered that falling in love again wasn’t a betrayal, and soon enough, she was able to wear grief with grace.

Smell the Blue Sky is a grief memoir for women that shares one woman’s grief process and how she emerged from the darkness, stronger and wiser. Smell the Blue Sky won the BRAG Medallion award for the Best Self-Published books in 2014.

 

ASK AN AUTHOR:

Q: Why did you write this book?

**A: ** As a military widow, when I lost my husband I wanted to read about other people who'd experienced loss and grief like mine, and survived it. I wanted to know how to become someone new, so I didn't have to feel so terrible. But I wanted to do that without forgetting the memories or letting go of them. I wanted to build new relationships and question my spirituality and listen to new music and finish school and love again, but I didn't know how to do that without feeling sick with betrayal. So I wrote this book for other widows wondering the same. I wrote this book to make sense of the death. I wrote to share with others what grief looks like.

 

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