Back When We Were Normal: Marriage, Death, and the Death of a Marriage

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MFA in Creative Nonfiction

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In Back When We Were Normal, Molly grapples with how to grieve: how to grieve a struggling marriage interrupted by her young husband's death, how to talk about grief that doesn’t match anybody's—least of all, her—expectations, and how to come to terms with both the pain and surprising joy of starting a new life.