A Widow's StoryUnlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widows Story is the universally acclaimed authors poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravediggers Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest

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including a brutal and sensational double murder

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy

Funny Animal Mystery: There’s a mysterious assailant on the loose in Kalamazoo City

at the precipice of the life she has and the one she longs for

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despite Nevada’s “talent

Can Mia prove to everyone—especially herself—that she’s not only ready to wed

Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered

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Using interviews

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