Signs of  life
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Natalie Taylor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780307717498
Subjects: High school teachers; Widowhood; Single mothers; Bereavement; Adjustment (Psychology); Loss (Psychology); Widows; Biography
Description: "Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life: she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, Josh, a new house, and a baby on the way. Then, while visiting her sister, she gets the news that Josh has died in a freak accident. Four months before the birth of her son, Natalie is leveled by loss. What follows is an incredibly powerful emotional journey, as Natalie calls upon resources she didn't even know she had in order to re-imagine and re-build a life for her and her son. In vivid and immediate detail, Natalie documents her life from the day of Josh's death through the birth their son, Kai, as she struggles in her role as a new mother where everyone is watching her for signs of impending collapse"--Publisher description.

The author recounts the days and months after the death of her husband in a freak accident.