Unremarried Widow: A Memoir by Artis Henderson

Artis Henderson was just 26 and had been married only four months when her husband was killed while serving in Iraq.

(Simon & Schuster, $25)

Unremarried Widow is “guaranteed to join the ranks of memoirs that will be talked about for years to come,” said Meganne Fabrega in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Author Artis Henderson was just 26 and had been married only four months when her aviator husband, Miles, was killed in a 2006 helicopter crash while serving in Iraq. Not long before, Artis had worried whether she and Miles were compatible enough for marriage; now she was thrown into a world of grief. “There is no greater hurt than knowing you have been loved and the source of that love disappearing,” she writes, in a sentence that’s “so plain and so true that it is impossible to continue reading without feeling your heart break a little.”

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