Shadows in Winter delivers a harrowing and loving account of one widower's path from suffering to survival, and to a rediscovery of himself as a father.
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword Leon R. Kass, M.D. xi
1 Finding the Words 1
2 Lines in a Portrait 4
3 On the Edge of the Abyss 6
4 Daydreams 10
5 Longing 16
6 Faith 19
7 Descent 23
8 Beginnings 35
9 Suffering 41
10 Where Are You? What Endures? 54
11 Snowfall 60
12 My Child's Voice 62
13 Spaces in Memory 76
14 Photographs 79
15 Motherless 85
16 Interlude of Memory 88
17 Endings 90
18 God Who Revives the Dead 98
19 Shivah 104
20 Kaddish 107
21 A Visit to the Doctor 110
22 Into Spring 111
23 The Path We Travel 114
24 Letters in the Dark 116
25 The Shape of Survival 122
26 Afterword 129
Overview
Shadows in Winter delivers a harrowing and loving account of one widower's path from suffering to survival, and to a rediscovery of himself as a father.