The Sweet Pain of Being Alive

<p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>In the highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning memoir <em>Daring to Date Again</em> (She Writes Press 2014) <em>The Sweet Pain of Being Alive</em> is the second in Ann Anderson Evans's memoir trilogy. It follows her heartbreaking journey as she seeks to uncover why her beloved husband killed himself. As her agonizing search deepens her views on gender sex marriage right wrong good and bad start to shift.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Ann Anderson Evans is a fearless fierce divine and wise woman who has dared to take a huge bite from Eve's apple and has the guts to share the insights fights and delights she has met head-on.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>- M.J. McDermott Emmy award-winning broadcaster.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>This book reveals a widow's gut-wrenching process of scrutiny. In the aftermath of her beloved's suicide Ann Anderson Evans asks the questions all suicide survivors must ask: Why? Was his life really so bad? How could I have saved him? Futilely searching for answers to this inexplicable tragedy Ann has beautifully painfully dissected her relationship her husband's life and his enduring struggles with depression and transgenderism. Ann is left to find acceptance and peace on her own. This is compelling reading.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>- Leslie Hilburn Fabian Author of <em>My Husband's a Woman Now: A Shared Journey of Transition and Love.</em></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>'People are not always maybe not ever what they seem' writes Ann Anderson Evans. She thought she knew her husband Terry. What she didn't know - the secret he only partially shared and his anguish about not claiming his authentic self - led him to suicide. 'This book is stark unflinching intensely personal and powerfully written. I loved the book and I'm grateful to Ann Anderson Evans for having the courage to write it.'</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>- Joan Price author of <em>Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved.</em></span></p>