AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary
is pleased to welcome Becky Aikman, author of
Saturday Night Widows, The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives,
on Tuesday, January 29 at 7 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium.
One
night in 2010, Aikman convened the first meeting of what she called the
"Saturday Night Widows," a group of six women, she among them, shocked to find
themselves widowed in the middle of their lives.
Meet the Saturday Night Widows: ringleader Becky,
an unsentimental journalist who lost her husband to cancer; Tara, a polished
mother of two, whose husband died in the throes of alcoholism after she filed
for divorce; Denise, a widow of just five months, now struggling to get by;
Marcia, a hard-driving corporate lawyer; Dawn, an alluring self-made
entrepreneur whose husband was killed in a sporting accident, leaving two small
children behind; and Lesley, a housewife who returned home one day to find that
her husband had committed suicide.
When
they first made a pact to spend their Saturday nights together, the women
didn't know what to expect. The friendships and adventures that evolved among
these women with little in common other than young widowhood are at the heart
of Aikman's Saturday Night Widows, The
Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives.
Aikman
will discuss her book, an unsentimental, witty, and totally involving chronicle
of moving on - a shared adventure as these young widows learned to navigate a
new world.
AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary
is made possible through the support of the Greenwich Library Board of Trustees
and contributions by generous donors.
Books will be available for purchase and signing at each event through
Diane's Books. This series is free and open to all, but seating in the Cole
Auditorium is limited and will be available on a first come, first served
basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, please contact
Marianne Weill at (203) 622-7933 or visit www.greenwichlibrary.org/authorslive.
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