The Ghost Marriage: A Memoir by Kirsten Mickelwait
Thanks to Sabrina Kenoun of Sparkpoint Studio, I am giving away one print copy of ‘The Ghost Marriage: A Memoir’ by Kirsten Mickelwait.
Description Ghost Marriage by Kirsten Mickelwait
After returning to San Francisco to pursue her dream of becoming a successful writer, Kirsten meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and promising attorney and imagines building a life, family, and fruitful future. But after twenty-two years, Steve is not the fairytale that she married. Once her career-driven head of the household, he’s now unemployed and addicted to opioids and uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail her.
Their marriage dissolves and leads to divorce, which is quickly followed by Steve’s colon cancer diagnosis and his passing not even a year later, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts from properties that are no longer hers. As she picks up the pieces to her life and cleans up the messes that Steve left behind, she begins to receive communications from him in the afterlife —leading her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. THE GHOST MARRIAGE is a memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and healing that will relate to anyone who finds themselves in a crumbling situation.
Praise Ghost Marriage by Kirsten Mickelwait
“A skillfully written, thought-provoking account that positively reconsiders an antagonist as an important teacher.”―Kirkus Reviews
“What if you accidentally married your worst enemy? With unflinching honesty and hard-earned grace, Kirsten Mickelwait peels the shiny façade off her catastrophic marriage to reveal how she not only survived the lies, betrayals, and lawsuits, but also found her way to compassion. If you don’t think on your ex fondly, The Ghost Marriage will teach you why you should.”―Meredith May, author of The Honey Bus and Loving Edie
“The Ghost Marriage is an absorbing tale about what happens when you marry Prince Charming and the expected ‘Happily Ever After’ erodes into a kind of ‘Cursed Ever After.’ It’s a story of survival, of adjusted ambition, of how to be quick on your feet when your daily foundation crumbles in midlife.”―Julia Scheeres, author of Jesusland and A Thousand Lives
About Kirsten Mickelwait
At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she’d dared to expect.
Twenty-two years later, Steve has become someone quite different from the man Kirsten first met. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail her. The couple separates but, just after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within the year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts from properties that are no longer hers. It’s only then that she finally understands: The man she married was a needy, addictive person wrapped in a shiny package.
As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife—leading her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discovery: that life isn’t limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers. This is a book about life after divorce and life after death. It’s a story of how forgiveness is the best revenge.
Website: https://www.kirstenmickelwait.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kmickelwait
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Giveaway Ghost Marriage by Kirsten Mickelwait
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