{"product_id":"should-i-still-wish-9780803295223","title":"Should I Still Wish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife’s violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with hisin-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small red X on a map, Evans musters the courage for a cross-country trip. From the Badlands to Yellowstone to the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, Evans’s hope and determination propel him even as he contemplates his vulnerability and the legacy of a terrible tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShould I Still Wish\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Evans’s efforts to leave an intense year of grief behind, to make peace with the natural world again, and to reconnect with a woman who promises, like San Francisco itself, a life of abundance and charm. With unflinching honesty Evans plumbs the uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions of a paradoxical experience in this love story, celebration of fatherhood, meditat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poignant. . . . [\u003ci\u003eShould I Still Wish\u003c\/i\u003e] offers candid insight into the baffling interplay of love, loss, and the balm of memory.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poignant meditation.\"—Georgia Rowe, \u003ci\u003eMercury News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very moving.\"—Terri Schlichenmeyer, \u003ci\u003eWisconsin Daily Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully observed and unstintingly honest, \u003ci\u003eShould I Still Wish\u003c\/i\u003e tries to make sense of a world rendered senseless by tragedy. Its real brilliance, though, is in its interweaving of sorrow and joy, its examination of what it means to simultaneously mourn an old life and celebrate a new one.”—Katharine Noel, author of \u003ci\u003eHalfway House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eShould I Still Wish\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly moving memoir of love’s recovery. . . . The brilliance of this insightful book is in its honest articulation of great paradox—love can rise complete and uncompromised even as grief endures, and the human heart can belong simultaneously to both life and death, neither of which triumphs forever.”—Jonathan Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eHannah and the Mountain: Notes toward a Wilderness Fatherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Leaving Indiana\u003cbr\u003e Badlands\u003cbr\u003e Crossing to Safety\u003cbr\u003e Yes\u003cbr\u003e Signal and Noise\u003cbr\u003e The Big House\u003cbr\u003e Unanswered Prayers\u003cbr\u003e Not So Much\u003cbr\u003e The Lake\u003cbr\u003e Mountain Rain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405297295703,"sku":"9780803295223","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803295223.jpg?v=1730489617","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/should-i-still-wish-9780803295223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}