Windower - Paperback

by Michael Loughran (Author)

The best memoirs are not just an account of a single life, but a guide to how to live. This isn't because the writer has found all the answers to our oldest human questions; it's because the writer honors us by telling the hardest truths. Michael Loughran's Windoweris a memoir of grief, an account of the years before and after losing his wife to suicide, a document of love's impossible forms. It is a report back--tender and uncompromising--from a place we could call hell, the place where we outlive those we love. In this endlessly vivid and true book, we follow the narrator in his ongoing daily life--amid friends and family, work, falling in love again--even as he is pursued by the Furies of guilt, regret, and vicious despair. Windower is a vital book about being human amid loss, about how to go on in this devastating and beautiful world.

Author Biography

Michael Loughran's work has appeared in Boston Review, Indiana Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia.