Realities Author:Marian D. Schwartz A year after her husband's suicide, Jenny Weaver impulsively moves from a suburb in the Northeast to California. Her young children adjust to the move, but she does not. She has made only one friend, and she isn't sure of how to handle the children's problems. In a moment of deep frustration and loneliness, she begins writing to her dead husb... more »and, Richard, establishing an intimate correspondence in which she tells him about her daily life--the workplace bullying she experiences, the difficulties of single parenting and, after some hesitation, dating as a single mom and finding a new romance.
She also writes about the past, the forces that led to the destruction of their marriage and the life they had worked hard to build. When the past becomes threatening, she decides not to write to him anymore, but she finds it impossible to stop. The answer to their children's question-- "How-and why-did-Daddy-die?"--is in the past, and she can't hide from the truth forever.« less