Shadows in Winter

"Powerful, moving and evocative"- Jonathan Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University

"Shadows" - equal parts stunning and wrenching - pours vividly and unsparingly from the depths of a broken heart. Every word echoes with anguish, yet this is so much more than a story of loss - it is an unequivocal affirmation of the triumph of love over death. Anyone who has lost, anyone who has loved, will identify with the piercing humanity. One is left feeling called to love more deeply and to live more fully - to grasp every moment of life with gratitude and presence. This is a book that changes you forever. It must."- Rabbi Sharon Brous, spiritual leader of IKAR and panelist for Newsweek and The Washington Post's "On Faith"

"Faced with the sudden and devastating loss of his wife, Leah, Eitan Fishbane refused to give in to defeat, anger, and cynicism, but rather chose to tell the story of his own grief and struggle with tragedy, weaving this together with his reflections on the feelings that all experience in the face of terrible grief. The result is a painful, but poetic, humane, and deeply spiritual account of dealing with tragedy that will speak to all who suffer bereavement and those who minister to them."- Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus, Divinity School, University of Chicago

"Among the many recent personal narratives of loss and grief, Shadows in Winter stands out because Fishbane communicates the near impossibility of expressing the depth of his anguish at the very same time that he gives it voice. The reader will long remember this beautifully written memoir." - Linda S. Raphael, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Medical Humanities, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

"In this beautiful book Eitan Fishbane takes the reader into the heart of unimaginable pain and disorientation. He evokes the sweetness of life and unbearable loss with riveting nuance. His impulse to tell the story is the impulse towards healing, and he offers help in the midst of even darkest tragedy." Rabbi Mychal B. Springer, Director of the Center for Pastoral Education at The Jewish Theological Seminary

"This memoir answers an ongoing need in our culture to address the finality of the death of a much-loved family member, and of what to expect given the sudden loss of a beloved spouse, especially when that loss is compounded by the unanticipated single parenthood of a young child who is also grieving. Thought provoking and original."- Janet Mason Ellerby, author of Following the Tamborine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir