All of this : a memoir of death and desire
(Book)

"After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In [this book], Woolf chronicles the months before her husband's death -- and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband's illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, [this book] is one woman's story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame -- as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being -- and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief" -- Book jacket.