The Sisterhood of Widows

After losing her husband of 27 years, Mary Francis found herself in a strange place in her life as a widow. Now she was single, but didn’t feel like a single person. In fact, Mary wasn’t married or divorced and really not single – and so she decided to seek out other widows to help her understand her place. From their inspiring stories she, compiled The Sisterhood of Widows: Sixteen True Stories of Grief, Anger and Healing, a collection of stories of widows from all walks of life. The stories of how they lost their loved ones are varied, from accidents, cancer, heart attacks, and even suicide and their testimonies are passionate and sometimes even angry.

The Sisterhood of Widows: Sixteen True Stories of Grief, Anger and Healing can help widows from all walks of life and situations understand their grief, anger, loneliness, and emotional needs. This book also helps family members and friends of widows understand the emotional situations that new widows are forced to face. To be listened to, humored and encouraged by women friends is a gift not to be taken lightly, and Mary provides the encouragement all widows and their family members need.

This book is a collection of true stories from widows of all walks of life who reflect and comment about life after the death of their husbands. Emotionally every widow handles it differently and yet there is a common bond they share that makes them part of a sisterhood.

Each chapter is a widow’s story that provides perseverance, guidance, and insight into human nature. The book doesn’t have to be read cover to cover to gleam something useful from it. The material is organized in such a way that each reader can easily search for what seems most appropriate to them.