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Where I live now : a journey through love and loss to healing and hope by Butala, Sharon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. "It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." — Sharon Butala In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking , Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End, and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal comes a revelatory new book from one of our beloved writers. When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled the ranchlands of southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes of books, clothes, and keepsakes. But a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory—of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family. Reinventing herself in an urban landscape was painful, and facing her new life as a widow tested her very being. Yet out of this hard-won new existence comes an astonishingly frank, compassionate and moving memoir that offers not only solace and hope but inspiration to tho

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Butala, Sharon
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Canada
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781476790480
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Biography
Rating
3.88 / 5 (67 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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