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- Shadows in Winter: A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
summary
In March 2007, Leah Fishbane, a promising young graduate student in the prime of her life, was struck down suddenly with a undiagnosed brain tumor. In this deeply evocative memoir, written during the dark time of the first year following Leah’s death, her husband Eitan gives voice to the overwhelming power of grief and to the deep love that underlies such pain. He tells the story of his efforts to be a good father to his grieving four–year–old child and of his discovery of himself as a parent in ways he had not known before. Along this path, Fishbane asks fundamental questions about the meaning of death and life, about the place of God and faith in the experience of tragedy, reflecting on what it means to live with loss. The result is a poetic testament that will resonate with countless mourners and their loved ones. In giving honest expression to emotions that are at once particular and universal, Shadows in Winter offers a luminous window of comfort and hope to those battling the devastation of loss.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- 1. Finding the Words
- pp. 1-3
- 2. Lines in a Portrait
- pp. 4-5
- 3. On the Edge of the Abyss
- pp. 6-9
- 4. Daydreams
- pp. 10-15
- 5. Longing
- pp. 16-18
- 7. Descent
- pp. 23-34
- 8. Beginnings
- pp. 35-40
- 9. Suffering
- pp. 41-53
- 10. Where Are You? What Endures?
- pp. 54-59
- 11. Snowfall
- pp. 60-61
- 12. My Child’s Voice
- pp. 62-75
- 13. Spaces in Memory
- pp. 76-78
- 14. Photographs
- pp. 79-84
- 15. Motherless
- pp. 85-87
- 16. Interlude of Memory
- pp. 88-89
- 17. Endings
- pp. 90-97
- 18. God Who Revives the Dead
- pp. 98-103
- 19. Shivah
- pp. 104-106
- 20. Kaddish
- pp. 107-109
- 22. Into Spring
- pp. 111-113
- 23. The Path We Travel
- pp. 114-115
- 24. Letters in the Dark
- pp. 116-121
- 25. The Shape of Survival
- pp. 122-128
- 26. Afterword
- pp. 129-134
- Back Cover, Flap
- pp. 135-137
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815650751
Related ISBN(s)
9780815609896
MARC Record
OCLC
1016795207
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No