7 Books to Read With a Broken Heart
Toss out the Kleenex and sad, terry-cloth bathrobe. There's no
blow in life that just the right book can't help you recover from...
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Stag's Leap: Poems
By Sharon Olds
112 pages;
Knopf
To Help You Appreciate: You're (Finally!) Free
Sooner or later, it may
happen to all of us: The guy we love
just...well...leaves. After her marriage
of 26 years fell apart,
Olds wrote a book of poems that reads like a novel, one
in
which she learns to revel in the freedom of letting go and moving on,
with
courage, grace and joy. Yet another reason to read:
Stag's Leap
won the
2013
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
— Leigh Newman
Published 05/16/2014
