Fiction Pick of the Week: An Available Man

An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer 2012

Sixties-something widower, Edward Schuyler is grieving his beloved wife Bee. Following a suitable time though, his friends and family are wondering when he will relinquish his loss of a great love. What follows is an often hilarious, and sometimes poignant portrayal of Edward’s re-entry into the world of dating. The reader will never stop rooting for Edward as he encounters the grieving widow whose house is a shrine to her dead husband and the seventy-something plastic surgery addict who confesses a desperate search for vanished youth. And for a time he reunites with his former love, who left him at the alter all those years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed this tender exploration of the human spirit.