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A Season of Grief
Bill Valentine · 2006
95/100
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Bill Valentine's journal of the nine months after his partner of 21 years died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 is searingly honest — fear, anger, denial, and fragile hope recorded in real time. It also documents his legal fight with the New York State Workers Compensation Board, supported by Lambda Legal, to be recognized as a surviving spouse, making this both a grief memoir and a piece of LGBTQ+ rights history. Published by Haworth/Routledge, it carries real documentary weight. Readers should know the book centers an advocacy for same-sex marriage recognition, which may not align with all faith audiences on this platform. For those who can meet it where it is, the raw honesty of the grief writing is genuinely valuable.
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