What is your latest release and what genre is it?Young Widower: A Memoir (University Of Nebraska Press)
Quick description: John Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and now were working for the year in Romania, when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant, their life together was shattered. Katie became separated from the group. When John finally found her, he could only watch helplessly as she was mauled to death by a brown bear.
In such a love story, such a life story, how could a person ever move forward? That is the question John Evans, traumatized and restless, confronts in this book, as he learns the language of grief, the rhetoric of survival, and the contrary…
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