{"product_id":"when-we-were-all-still-alive-9781684630776","title":"When We Were All Still Alive","description":"For Conrad Burrell--husband, father, and successful attorney in the \u003cbr\u003eautumn of his life--the world has come apart. Having long ago lost his \u003cbr\u003efirst wife, the mother of his grown daughter and a widow herself, to \u003cbr\u003eyouth and pride, he's now lost his second to a violent accident, . \"You \u003cbr\u003ethink you're finished, that you have no more stories in you,\" his \u003cbr\u003eex-wife warns, and he fears she's right. Within hailing distance of the \u003cbr\u003eend of his days, after a lifetime of meeting the expectations of others, \u003cbr\u003e none are left but Conrad's own, and he must discover whether love \u003cbr\u003esurvives death as well as divorce--whether family memory can redeem \u003cbr\u003eindividual mortality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat do we do, then, we widows and widowers for whom there's nothing \u003cbr\u003eleft but the world's permission to stop what we've done all our lives?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the cities of his youth, in the deserts of New Mexico, but most of \u003cbr\u003eall in a small Pennsylvania town, Conrad finds he has one more lesson in\u003cbr\u003e love to learn from the women of his past, and the one woman he's \u003cbr\u003ecertain he can't live without. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Were All Still Alive\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of grief and healing, a portrait of a marriage, and a love song to ordinary lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcWalter, Keith:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Keith McWalter writes the essay blog \u003ci\u003eMortal Coil\u003c\/i\u003e (www.keithmcwalter.com), and his narrative nonfiction and opinion pieces have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. A collection of his essays, \u003ci\u003eNo One Else Will Tell You: Letters from a Bi-Coastal Father\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Writer's Digest Award for Nonfiction, and his family memoir, Befriending Ending, was anthologized in the online literary magazine \u003ci\u003eFeathered Flounder\u003c\/i\u003e. McWalter grew up in Mexico and Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Denison University and Columbia Law School, and spent much of his first career in the legal and investment banking worlds of New York and San Francisco. He and his wife live in Granville, Ohio, and Sanibel, Florida.","brand":"Sparkpress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377622028562,"sku":"9781684630776","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82fa303a-b818-4a3b-8703-865881ba0289.jpg?v=1728627839","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-we-were-all-still-alive-9781684630776","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}