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The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg

Death of a husband by cancer
Learning how to live with his memories, but without his physical presence
moving on without giving anything up
many opposing feelings: sorrow/joy, fear/peace; restlessness/contentment
the words and phrases in a cigar box
the gifts they hid for each other in the chinese chest
she just started driving across the country and ended up buying a house on a whim, in a little town where she stopped for gas
she and her husband were an island unto themselves, she left everyone else behind
decided to track down her college room-mates
toys with and finally pursues her dream of opening a shop called "what a woman wants"
The beautiful ways her husband reminds her of himself made me cry
The book felt a little random, but I guess that's how you'd feel if your husband just died and you were trying to readjust.
Good read

Borrowed from Library
240 pages