Windower

By Michael Loughran

The best memoirs are not just an account of a single life, but a guide to how to live. This isn't because the writer has found all the answers to our oldest human questions; it's because the writer honors us by telling the hardest truths. Michael Loughran's Windoweris a memoir of grief, an account of the years before and after losing his wife to suicide, a document of love's impossible forms. It is a report back--tender and uncompromising--from a place we could call hell, the place where we outlive those we love. In this endlessly vivid and true book, we follow the narrator in his ongoing daily life--amid friends and family, work, falling in love again--even as he is pursued by the Furies of guilt, regret, and vicious despair. Windower is a vital book about being human amid loss, about how to go on in this devastating and beautiful world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7XB917L
• ISBN13: 9798989708420
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 8.0"