![]() ![]() Sophie decides to ease her grief, or at least her loneliness, by moving in with her best friend Ruth in Ashland, Oregon. ![]() ![]() After the death of her computer programmer husband, she reexamines her life as a public relations agent in money-obsessed Silicon Valley. The Christmas season especially terrifies her: "I must write a memo to the Minister of Happier Days requesting that the holidays be cancelled this year." But widowhood also forces her to do something very sane. That's on one of the rare occasions when she bothers to get out of bed. I just got used to the idea of being married." Sophie's young widowhood forces her to do all kinds of crazy things-drive her car through her garage door, for instance. "How can I be a widow?" Sophie asks at the opening of Lolly Winston's sweet debut novel, Good Grief. Sophie Stanton's reaction is one of pure bafflement. ![]()
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