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Content: " Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.8212 ROXANE GAYWonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.8212 JENNY LAWSONDisturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative and memorable work.8212 Kirkus Reviews After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband's death8212 and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband's illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, All of This is one woman's story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame8212 as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being8212 and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief. "

Content: Biographisches: " REBECCA WOOLF has worked as a freelance writer since age 16 when she became a leading contributor to the hit 90s book series, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul and its subsequent Teen Love Series books. Since then, Woolf has contributed to numerous publications, websites and anthologies, most notably her own award-winning personal blog, Girl's Gone Child , which attracted millions of unique visitors worldwide. As well as launching her own successful blog, Woolf has contributed dozens of personal essays to publications both on and offline including Refinery29, Huffington Post, Parenting, and Romper and in 2012 hosted Childstyle, a web series on HGTV.com. She has appeared on CNN and NPR and has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine and New York Mag. She lives in Los Angeles with her son and three daughters. " Rezension(2): "ROXANE GAY, bestselling author of Bad Feminist: beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir 8212" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2022 What if you were planning to divorce your husband when suddenly he received a terminal diagnosis? From the opening salvo, Woolf makes it clear to readers that this is not going to be a traditional grief memoir. Rather, it is a forthright portrait of one marriage, and the things that came after. From digging desperately through her jewelry drawer in search of the wedding ring she took off years ago to having frank discussions about her dating and sexuality with her four children after their father dies, Woolf takes readers on a journey that is nothing if not unforgettable. Is it comfortable or comforting? No, but it is brutally honest and empowering tale of a woman who emerges from her marriage and her husband's final illness like a butterfly from a chrysalis--not neatly or painlessly, but nonetheless beautiful to behold. VERDICT Be prepared to laugh, to cry, and possibly to be mortified at the level of detail Woolf feels comfortable sharing,but in the end, readers will definitely be glad they got on this roller coaster with her. --Jennifer MooreCopyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 15, 2022 A successful writer and blogger explores how her husband's untimely death forced a confrontation with her unfulfilling marriage and undefined sexuality. By the time Woolf's husband, Hal, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, their marriage was in relative shambles--backs turned to each other in a bed big enough to keep us from touching. Hal resented Woolf for her financial success, and Woolf resented Hal for the lies she felt compelled to tell him to keep the marriage stable. However, his illness made the author desperate. Rather than seeking a divorce, she found herself wanting Hal to live. For the remainder of his life, the author swore she would never leave his side, the only marital vow I didn't break. The tumultuous mixture of love and hate complicated a difficult grieving process that began even before he died. As she revisited their shared past, she mourned her inadequacies as a wife, as a partner while also excoriating herself for passively accepting what she knew was a toxic relationship. After Hal's death, Woolf found herself performing widowhood for others while gnawing on a powerful desire to get fucked--less to satiate her desire and more to fill the emptiness that had carried over from her marriage. An affair with a friend she'd met at Hal's funeral provided some release. Then she signed up for Tinder and fell into a pattern of one-night standing, which eventually included both male and female partners as well as experiments in polyamory. In the process, Woolf learned that however traumatic, Hal's death had actually prepared her for the short-term relationships she realized were what made her feel the most free and alive. By turns disturbing and profound, this intimate book about one woman's path to personal liberation also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love and marriage. A provocative and memorable work of autobiography. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 1, 2022 Popular mommy-blogger-turned-sex and the single parent-columnist Woolf skillfully and honestly foreshadows what's to come when she confesses that she is not the first and certainly not the last wife to bury a husband she didn't want to be married to anymore. In the first half of her memoir, she focuses on the four months from Hal's diagnosis with terminal pancreatic cancer to his death at 44. She also looks back to when she got pregnant at 23, married Hal (whom she didn't know very well) in Las Vegas, and had four kids during their troubled 13-year marriage. Four months after Hal dies, Woolf, at 37, signs up for Tinder and posts, in her blunt way, the message, I am newly widowed and DTF. Possibly with you. It's not false advertising. Readers grappling with feelings of both grief and liberation may find it comforting to hear Woolf talk so candidly about feeling relieved to be alone. Moms who believe in being open with their kids will find a kindred spirit, too. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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