{"product_id":"unremarried-widow-a-memoir-9781451649291","title":"Unremarried Widow: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Artis Henderson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the pieces\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and Carole Radziwill's \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArtis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife was never part of her plan, but when she met Miles, Artis threw caution to the wind and moved with him to a series of Army bases in dusty Southern towns, far from the exotic future of her dreams. If this was true love, she was ready to embrace it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Miles was training and Artis was left alone, she experienced feelings of isolation and anxiety. It did not take long for a wife's worst fears to come true. On November 6, 2006, the Apache helicopter carrying Miles crashed in Iraq, leaving twenty-six-year-old Artis--in official military terms--an \"unremarried widow.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death--from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love--but also reveals how Miles's death mirrored her own father's, in a plane crash that Artis survived when she was five years old and that left her own mother a young widow. \u003ci\u003eUnremarried Widow\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a powerful look at mourning as a military wife....You can finish it in a day and find yourself haunted weeks later\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410959753367,"sku":"9781451649291","price":1468.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781451649291.webp?v=1767149717","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unremarried-widow-a-memoir-9781451649291","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}