A Meaning for Wife

Your wife is killed by a cashew (anaphylactic shock) , but there isn't time to grieve because your toddler son is always at your heels -- wanting to be fed, to be played with, or to sleep next to you all night long. A change of pace seems necessary, so you decide to visit your parents in order to attend your twenty-year high school reunion. What begins as a weekend getaway quickly becomes a theater for dealing with the past -- a past that you will have to re-imagine in order to have any hope of a future for you and your son.<br><br>Told in second person,<i> A Meaning for Wife</i> is the story of a man trying to come to terms with the sudden death of his wife, the aging parents he has long avoided, and the tribulations of single parenthood.