"I know. I know. No one says it but I know..." --from "Signs of
Life"
Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At
the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school
English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the
way. Then, while visiting her sister, she gets the news that Josh
has died in a freak accident. Four months before the birth of her
son, Natalie is leveled by loss.
What follows is an incredibly powerful emotional journey, as
Natalie calls upon resources she didn't even know she had in order
to re-imagine and re-build a life for her and her son. In vivid and
immediate detail, Natalie documents her life from the day of Josh's
death through the birth their son, Kai, as she struggles in her
role as a new mother where everyone is watching her for signs of
impending collapse. With honesty, raw pain, and most surprising, a
wicked sense of humor, Natalie recounts the agonies and unexpected
joys of her new life. There is the frustration of holidays,
navigating the relationship with her in-laws, the comfort she finds
and unlikely friendship she forges in support groups and the
utterly breathtaking, but often overwhelming new motherhood. When
she returns to the classroom, she finds that little is more healing
than the honesty and egocentricity of teenagers.
Drawing on lessons from beloved books like "The Color Purple" and
"The Catcher in the Rye" and the talk shows she suddenly can't get
enough of, from the strength of her family and friends, and from a
rich fantasy life--including a saucy fairy godmother who guides her
grieving--Natalie embarks on the ultimate journey of self-discovery
and realizes you can sometimes find the best in yourself during the
worst life has to offer. And she delivers these lessons, in way
that feels like she's right beside you in her bathrobe and with a
glass of wine--the cool, funny girlfriend you love to stay up all
night with.
Unforgettable and utterly absorbing, "Signs of Life" features a
powerful, wholly original debut voice that will have you crying and
laughing to the very last page.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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