She has lost more than her husband of 47 years. Oates has also lost her own sense of wholeness.
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Oates is nonetheless an expert at pacing as she approaches this “sinkhole,” her term for “places fraught with visceral memory, stirring terror if you approach them.”
I can relate to that.
Have you read "The Painted Bed" and "Without," the books that former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall wrote following the death from cancer of his wife of 23 years?
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