Summary of Florence Williams's Heartbreak

By IRB Media

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Book Preview: #1 My love affair with college began in a hurricane. I’d been in college exactly five weeks when I felt lucky to be there, on Yale’s gothic campus surrounded by crisp mid-Atlantic air. I had been ready to leave home.

#2 I fell in love with a boy named Miles who had started the hiking orientation program. He was both safe and reckless, and I found him irresistible. I was excited to climb the stone bell tower and experience the storm.

#3 My husband and I used to kayak a particular stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado. It features several big, technical rapids that scare me, especially Boulder Garden. One weekend, the water was high and I didn’t like the way the forceful current piled into a giant rock on river left. I could picture my kayak getting pinned against it.

#4 The author’s marriage fell apart when she stopped putting her husband first, and he began to find someone new to love. She was heartbroken, but she still loved him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357469

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

My love affair with college began in a hurricane. I’d been in college exactly five weeks when I felt lucky to be there, on Yale’s gothic campus surrounded by crisp mid-Atlantic air. I had been ready to leave home.

#2

I fell in love with a boy named Miles who had started the hiking orientation program. He was both safe and reckless, and I found him irresistible. I was excited to climb the stone bell tower and experience the storm.

#3

My husband and I used to kayak a particular stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado. It features several big, technical rapids that scare me, especially Boulder Garden. One weekend, the water was high and I didn’t like the way the forceful current piled into a giant rock on river left. I could picture my kayak getting pinned against it.

#4

The author’s marriage fell apart when she stopped putting her husband first, and he began to find someone new to love. She was heartbroken, but she still loved him.

#5

The heart can be broken in many ways. It can be shattered suddenly, and those initial moments of shock are enough to ignite a chain reaction that can have long-lasting effects.

#6

Emma was 37 when she met C, a man who seemed to understand her flaws and loved her for them. They had plans to leave the city and raise a child on the acacia grasslands. But when he told her he wanted to date other women, she found out he had already gotten pregnant.

#7

Emma had a heart attack and died 15 months after she met C. She was still trying to get over him, spending a lot of time in nature, kayaking, walking, and singing.

#8

The Japanese term takotsubo describes a condition in which patients