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Marion Winik

Author of First Comes Love

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Marion Winik is the author of five previous books, including "Telling", "First Comes Love", & "The Lunch-Box Chronicles". She has been a commentator on National Public Radio since 1991, & her essays have appeared in such magazines as "Redbook", "Harper's Bazaar", & "Parenting". She lives in show more Pennsylvania with her husband & children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons (2005) — Contributor — 77 copies

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Brief vignettes of people the author remembers who have died.
Sometimes poignant, sometimes witty, always smartly written. I felt that providing nicknames for the deceased provided a bit more relatability to each - a bit more generality, that they could be stand-ins for anyone with a similarity or relatability that the reader might actually know.
I picked the book up in part because of the title, and expected to find somewhat more about the city. But it was titled more for where the book was written than for where the people lived or stories took place. I found myself trying to figure out where exactly situations happened, which provided another layer of depth to the otherwise succinct snippets of life.… (more)
 
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GoofyOcean110 | 2 other reviews | Dec 9, 2022 |
A bit of a snoozefest mixed with with a complaint box.
 
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ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 |
Winik sure knows or knows of a lot of people that have died. Some stories were interesting, others only so-so.
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exfed | 1 other review | Sep 1, 2021 |
I chose a book by a woman author to read for Women's History Month, and so I picked Marion Winik. For those of you not familiar with her work, she was a local regional writer in Austin, TX and then relocated to the East Coast and became a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. She has published a series of books including "First Comes Love" about her experiences being married to a gay man that died from HIV. She has also written books about parenting her two boys from that marriage, "Lunchbox Chronicles", and a series of Books of the Dead. She had gotten feedback that talking about death was depressing. I identify with her tales because we are both Jewish, we are about the same age, and both lived in Austin, TX. I admire her strong spirit and her ability to transform her unconventional life into stories that are relatable to many women from our generation. We didn't want conventional families, we wanted careers and to be to follow our dreams. At our age too, we have outlived many close friends and family members, and surviving those deaths increasingly becomes a part of your daily experiences. At the university I work at, we have students that unfortunately die while they are enrolled here. Often it is traffic accidents as the cause of death, but sometimes it is drugs or alcohol. It is a terrible tragedy that their potential and their young lives are cut so short, but we honor their deaths by having Silver Taps ceremonies in the evenings for the students that have passed away. It is certainly sobering, but honoring the dead is not depressing.… (more)
 
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