With Sasha’s husband suddenly reappearing, and Rudy’s daughter confronting her own marital problems, suddenly life becomes more complicated than Rudy and Sasha could have imagined. Just when Rudy and Sasha’s relationship begins to deepen, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy’s wife’s untimely death-a coworker has confessed to her murder-but Rudy’s actions are suspicious enough to warrant a second look at him, too.

And it doesn’t hurt that Sasha, the Hungarian men’s watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom, but for Rudy, there’s joy in bringing a little music into the world. After being downsized from his finance position, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Now, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife, he’s still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life-but his new job is helping. The last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning, a widow at fifty-four years old.

Still, Sophie proves that with enough humor and chutzpah, it is possible to have life after loss.From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief comes a richly poignant and stirring story that asks: How soon is too soon to fall in love again? But instead of the way it's depicted in the movies, with a rugged Sam Shepherd kind of guy finding her, Sophie finds herself in the middle of Lucy-and-Ethel madcap adventures with a darkly comic edge. In a desperate attempt to reinvent her life, Sophie moves to Ashland, Oregon. Soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job and her waistline as well.

Downing cartons of ice-cream for breakfast, breaking down in the produce section of supermarkets, showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers. Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind. In an age where women are expected to be high-achievers, Sophie desperately wants to be a good widow?a graceful, composed Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. 36-year-old Sophie Stanton loses her young husband to cancer. The brilliantly funny and heartwarming New York Times bestseller about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband.

Good Grief by Lolly Winston