Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

After Him

By Cathleen Medwick
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Cathleen Medwick reviews Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison, the elegiac and emotionally precise story of life with and without the author's late husband, scientist Richard Wyatt.

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