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Author: Rebecca Daniels

Publisher: Sunbury Press

ISBN: 979-8888192047

“It could be a 'regular'day, or it could be a tough one to get through. These anniversariesare unpredictable, and I feel like this one could be a big one. . ..especially since it’s another Saturday and it’s supposed to besunny, just like it was the Saturday you died. I’m hoping that I’llbe surrounded by my prisms all day.”

A harrowing and heartfeltaccount of author Rebecca Daniels' struggle with grief and returningto normal after the death of her husband. 

I have read two ofDaniels' other books in the past, and both were absolutely stunning,but this one moved me in a way no other book has in a long while. Ifyou have ever lost someone close to you, you will know the blackshadow of grief that hangs over your life afterward. 

Daniels' found this outall too soon when her husband of only six years passed away suddenlyfrom a massive heart attack. In that one moment – the moment thatshe found her husband, Skip dead in his favorite chair – Daniels'life went from 'before' to 'after.' 

When a person is dealingwith grief, you often hear the phrase, 'the new normal.' This issomething that Daniels' talks about in the book as a way ofdescribing how her 'normal' after Skip passed was different from thenormal before. Things will never truly be the same for her, but shewas able to return to a different sense of normalcy in a way thatleft her able to remember Skip fondly and with contentment. 

This is a beautiful memoirand one that I feel should be read by anyone who has lost someoneclose to them. Daniels' describes the grieving process so well andvalidates everything that you might be feeling as you struggle tofind your way to your 'new normal.' 

About Rebecca Daniels

Award winning Author,Rebecca Daniels (MFA, PhD) taught performance, writing, and speakingin liberal arts universities for over 25 years, including St.Lawrence University in Canton, NY, from 1992-2015. She was thefounding producing director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland,OR, directed with many professional Portland theatre companies in the1980s, and is the author of the groundbreaking Women Stage DirectorsSpeak: Exploring the Effects of Gender on Their Work (McFarland,1996, 2000) and has been published in multiple professional theatrejournals.

After her retirement fromteaching, she turned her focus to creative non-fiction and began herassociation with Sunbury Press with Keeping the Lights on for Ike:Daily Life of a Utilities Engineer at AFHQ in Europe During WWII; or,What to Say in Letters Home When You’re Not Allowed to Write aboutthe War (Sunbury Press, 2019), a book based on her father’s letterhome from Europe during WWII.

Her second book withSunbury, Finding Sisters: How One Adoptee Used DNA Testing andDetermination to Uncover Family Secrets and Find Her Birth Familyexplores how DNA testing, combined with traditional genealogicalresearch, helped her find her genetic parents, two half-sisters, andother relatives in spite of being given up for a closed adoption atbirth.

Her newest book withSunbury (2024) is a memoir about her late-in-life second marriage andsudden widowhood called That Day and What Came After: Finding andLosing the Love of My Life in Six Short Years. To find out more aboutRebecca and her books, please visit her website athttps://rebecca-daniels.com/