Elizabeth Alexander, a poet and professor, writes the memoir of the year after her husband's sudden death. This book is a poem and a love story. Overwhelmingly beautiful and grateful. An emotionally difficult book, not to be read in public if you are prone to crying, but so worth it. If you have the chance to read it in one setting it would be lovely. Although I have read the library's copy I want to add this to my collection to read every few years.