Widow

<p>Author Judy Crowell a sixty-three-year old widow is shaken out of her topsy-turvy malaise by an old acquaintance cajoling and wooing her back to the dating world of the twenty-first century a world she last experienced when Eisenhower was president. Tackling a pile of disregarded old photos she reminisces over the men in her life: a hormones-raging teenage Lothario in a lime green '50s Chevy; an eighty-year-old Benedictine monk; a Johnny Walker-swilling uncle and a husband taken too soon by cancer.</p><p>After forty-two years of marriage can she share another man's popcorn at the movies? Feel another man's beard against her cheek? Another man's touch? Another man's bed?</p><p>In Widow: A Four Letter Word humor and tragedy intermingle as a widow looks back at the men in her life and grapples with a persistent suitor wooing her to date and perhaps to love again.</p>