With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Still, Sophie proves that with enough humor and chutzpah, it is possible to have life after loss. But instead of the way it?s depicted in the movies, with a rugged Sam Shepherd kind of guy finding her, Sophie finds herself in the middle of Lucy-and-Ethel madcap adventures with a darkly comic edge. In a desperate attempt to reinvent her life, Sophie moves to Ashland, Oregon. Downing cartons of ice-cream for breakfast, breaking down in the produce section of supermarkets, showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers?soon she?s not only lost her husband, but her job and her waistline as well. Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind. In an age where women are expected to be high-achievers, Sophie desperately wants to be a good widow?a graceful, composed Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. 36-year-old Sophie Stanton loses her young husband to cancer. But instead of the way women starting over are depicted in the movies with heroines instantly being swept off their feet by Sam Shepard kinds of guys Sophie finds herself in the middle of Lucy-and-Ethel madcap adventures with a darkly comic edge involving a thirteen-year-old with a fascination with fire and an alarmingly handsome actor who inspires a range of feelings she can't cope with yet.įilled with laugh-out-loud humor, struggles, triumphs, and plenty of midnight trips to the fridge, Good Grief is a funny, wise, and heartbreakingly poignant novel from one of fiction's freshest and most exciting new voices.The brilliantly funny and heartwarming New York Times bestseller about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband. Self-medicating with cartons of ice cream for breakfast, breaking down in the produce section at the supermarket, showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job, her house, and her waistline.ĭesperate to reinvent her life, Sophie moves to Ashland, Oregon.

In an age in which women are expected to be high achievers, thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. It's all uphill from here! Then you discover the escalator goes down one more floor to another level of bargain basement junk.' You think, This is it: I'm at the bottom now. 'The funny thing about rock bottom is there's stuff underneath it.

Good Grief by Lolly Winston