The Beginner's Goodbye
A Novel
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler comes the wise, haunting, and deeply moving story of one man's grief of the deepest kind--the loss of his beloved wife.
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. When he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable life together.
But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and find some peace. Gradually he discovers,…