Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief

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PEOPLE Magazine Boxed mention 4/4

FORBES.com April 11

MORE Magazine March Issue/essay by Jill

RED Magazine (UK) March Issue/essay by Jill

The BARK Magazine Summer Issue /On Stands May/essay by Jill

Chicago Tribune Q&A April 16. Released to Tribune-owned papers April 10

MONTCLAIR Magazine May feature

New Jersey Monthly June Issue/Book Review

RADIO

The Pulse/WHYY Philadelphia NPR May 2 taping Air date to come.

ONLINE features

Next Avenue | PBS | online now

www.nextavenue.org

Next Avenue is a major new PBS system website designed to reach America's booming 50+ population as they plan for and literally define a new life stage.

They interviewed Jill about FOUR FUNERALS AND A WEDDING. .

LIFE REIMAGINED | AARP | online now

http://lifereimagined.aarp.org/stories

Life Reimagined profiles people over 50

GUIDEPOSTS.org Blog post April 8

MARIONROACH.com Memoir Blog April 8

OPEN TO HOPE RADIO

Hosted by mother and daughter psychotherapists.

Interview will be posted on YOU TUBE

Host will write about Four Funerals in a column for The Huffington Post (Date to come)

OTHER ONLINE COVERAGE Dates T.K.

Lilith.org Q&A

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/ post about the book.

FACEBOOK

NYT bestselling authors Eloisa James (audience: 58,165) and Christina Baker Kline (audience: 5,500) featured FOUR FUNERALS on their Facebook pages on April 8.

WEBINARS:

National Association of Baby Boomer Women (www.nabbw,org) April 10th 8PM EST

National Association of Memoir Writers (www.namw.org) June 5th 7PM EST

AUTHOR APPEARANCES/Readings/Signings

Watchung Books May 8, 7PM Reading

Tea and Conversation October 26, 2PM Bernardsville,NJ

Reviews

Forget everything you've heard about the grieving process. Jill Smolowe's memoir about the death of her husband and other close family membersand her eventual true-life happy endingupends conventional wisdom, providing a new narrative for grief. By turns humorous, matter-of-fact, and wise, Smolowe does not shy away from uncomfortable moments. But she also emphasizes moments of grace with an eloquence that will take your breath away. As she probes deeper into her own feelings and motivations, she's never maudlin or histrionic. You'll feel like you're in the company of a wise, funny, rigorously honest and yet compassionate friend. I found myself in tears several timesand I also found myself cheering her on. Her insights about grieving, and moving beyond grief, should be required reading for all humans. I loved this book.
Christina Baker Kline, author of the New York Times bestseller Orphan Train

This is an absolute must-read for people struggling with loss.
Publishers Weekly

Surprised by her resilience after a series of lossesincluding the death of her beloved husbandPeople writer Smolowe has written an uplifting memoir about grieving and moving on.
People

Jill is not only a fabulous writer but she discovers in the midst of her sorrow, her insuperable losses, that she has enormous reserves of strength. Hearing about grief from the inside gives me a better notion of how to respond to it.
Rick Hamlin, Executive Editor, Guideposts

No one would envy Smolowes ordeal. But the way she handled it and writes about it Very much so.
New Jersey Monthly

Jill Smolowe has written a moving memoir of lossand also a uniquely uplifting one. Emphasizing the resilience, not the grief (though she portrays both with a novelists eye for detail and ear for dialogue), she offers essential insights for those who have lost people they love, or know others who have, or will one day find themselves in one or the other of these positionsin other words, for every one of us. Exploding many truisms about dealing with death and illness, this book provides insight for navigating the perilous path between saying too much or too little, and concrete suggestions by which the bereaved, and those who care about them, can move beyond the ritual 'Let me know if there is anything I can do.'
Deborah Tannen, author of the New York Times bestseller You Just Dont Understand

Many accounts of grief are called 'brave' and 'unsparing,' but Four Funerals and a Wedding truly is those things. It's the first account from the silent majority who respond to loss not with paralyzing sorrow but with remarkable strength. Jill Smolowe challenges orthodoxies surrounding bereavement and shows how man does not just endure, but prevails.
Ruth Davis Konigsberg, author of The Truth About Grief
Jill Smolowe has written an amazing book. What makes the book amazing is that it is not maudlin or sad or sappy. I heartily recommend Four Funerals and a Wedding. Especially since, if you havent yet had to personally deal with grieving a loved oneyou know your time will eventually come.
Anne Holmes, National Association of Baby Boomer Women

Magnificent ... an exquisitely honest book.
Newark Star-Ledger

There are so many who would benefit from Smolowe's emotional intelligence, warmth and wisdom.
Dr. Lloyd Sederer, Medical Director, NY State Office of Mental Health, Huffington Post

Author Bio

Jill Smolowe is the author of the memoir An Empty Lap: One Couple's Journey to Parenthood and co-editor of the ;anthology A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents. An award-winning journalist, she has been a foreign affairs writer for Time and Newsweek, and a senior writer for People, where she currently specializes in crime stories. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post Magazine, Adoptive Families and the Reader's Digest Today's Best NonFiction series. For more on Jill, visit ;http://www.jillsmolowe.com/