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    The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death
    The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death
    The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death
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    The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death

    By Ann Anderson Evans

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    In the highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning memoir, Daring to Date Again (She Writes Press, 2014), The Sweet Pain of Being Alive is the second in Ann Anderson Evans’s memoir trilogy. It follows her heartbreaking journey as she seeks to uncover why her beloved husband killed himself. As her agonizing search deepens, her views on gender, sex, marriage, right, wrong, good, and bad start to shift.


    “Ann Anderson Evans is a fearless, fierce, divine, and wise woman who has dared to take a huge bite from Eve’s apple and has the guts to share the insights, fights, and delights she has met head-on.”

    – M.J. McDermott, Emmy award-winning broadcaster.

    “This book reveals a widow’s gut-wrenching process of scrutiny. In the aftermath of her beloved’s suicide, Ann Anderson Evans asks the questions all suicide survivors must ask: Why? Was his life really so bad? How could I have saved him? Futilely searching for answers to this inexplicable tragedy, Ann has beautifully, painfully dissected her relationship, her husband’s life, and his enduring struggles with depression and transgenderism. Ann is left to find acceptance and peace on her own. This is compelling reading.”

    – Leslie Hilburn Fabian, Author of My Husband’s a Woman Now: A Shared Journey of Transition and Love.

    “‘People are not always, maybe not ever, what they seem,’ writes Ann Anderson Evans. She thought she knew her husband Terry. What she didn’t know – the secret he only partially shared and his anguish about not claiming his authentic self – led him to suicide. ‘This book is stark, unflinching, intensely personal, and powerfully written. I loved the book, and I’m grateful to Ann Anderson Evans for having the courage to write it.’”

    – Joan Price, author of Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Macauley Publishers
    Release dateJan 5, 2024
    ISBN9798889104063
    The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death
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    Ann Anderson Evans

    or years in Italy, Spain, France, Israel, Germany, and Greece. These experiences transformed her and figure in many of her stories. Along the way, in one way or another, she learned to speak six languages. Ann enjoys her job teaching freshman writing at Montclair State University where she is also a Fellow in a group introducing Contemplative Pedagogy practices to universities around the country. Her short stories have been published in the literary press: Phantasmagoria, Under The Sun, and Phoebe. Her poetry has been published in a local publication, Offerings 2. An academic essay Beyond Grammar: Linguistics in Language and Writing Courses was published in the Duke University journal, Pedagogy. She excels in public speaking and has presented at academic conferences and done well received public readings of her work. Her website and blog are at www.annandersonevans.com. Another blog, www.linguisticsintheclassroom.com, proposes to remake the writing classroom. She is on Facebook (Fan and personal pages), LinkedIn (Ann Anderson Evans), and Twitter (Ann Anderson Evans, @annwriter) An audio version of the first two chapters of Searching for the Unicorn is available on her website, and she is working with a sound engineer to record the whole book for audio publication.

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