What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
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Abigail Thomas. (2015). What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Abigail Thomas. 2015. What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.

Abigail Thomas. What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.

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   • bioText: Abigail Thomas worked as both a book editor and book agent before writing her first short story collection, Getting Over Tom. Her second and third books An Actual Life, and Herb's Pajamas, were works of fiction. Her memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. She is also author of the memoirs Safekeeping, Thinking About Memoir, and What Comes Next and How to Like It. The daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), Thomas has four children, twelve grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. She lives in Woodstock, New York, with her dogs.
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The New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life—an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: "If you only read one book this year, make it this one" (Ann Patchett).
In her bestselling memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the devastating loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, "a keenly observed memoir...Thomas writes of the changes aging brings us all and of coping through love: of family, dogs, a well-turned phrase. She is superb company" (People).

Thomas was startled to overhear herself described as "a nice old lady with a tattoo," because she thinks of herself as not nice, not old, nor a lady. But she has wondered: what comes next? What comes after the death of a spouse? What form does a lifelong friendship take after deepest betrayal? How does a mother cope with her child's dire illness? Or the death of a cherished dog?

And how to like it? How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? How to find solace and pleasure? How to sustain and be sustained by our most trusted, valuable companions? At its heart, What Comes Next and How to Like It is about the complicated friendship between Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago—a rich bond that has lasted through marriages, child-raising, and the vicissitudes and tragedies of life. "After all," she writes, "there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections."

Exquisitely observed, lush with sentences you will read over and over again, What Comes Next and How to Like It "is a beautifully felt, deeply moving memoir, the best work yet by a woman who has already done some of the best work in the field. Abigail Thomas is the Emily Dickinson of memoirists, and so much of this book's wisdom is between the lines and in the white spaces. It may only take you two days to read, but the impact will stay with you for a long, long time" (Stephen King). This is a glorious guide to living imperfectly and exuberantly.

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   • content: Though her memoir is written with the classy precision of a veteran editor and author, Abigail Thomas reads to listeners with the unrehearsed emotion of a chance meeting with an old friend. This latest of her superb books is mostly about friends--boyfriends, new friends, husbands, friends who are dogs, and a particular man-friend whose relationship with the author has spanned almost her entire life. But what lingers in the heart, even more than the ring of truth in her speaking voice, is her artist's sensibilities as she shares with beautifully textured language her observations about life's pleasures and tragedies. Hearing her talk about joy, loss, love, and the unavoidable pain of human frailty is an experience that will make listeners feel less afraid to engage with life as it really is. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

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In her bestselling memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the devastating loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, "a keenly observed memoir...Thomas writes of the changes aging brings us all and of coping through love: of family, dogs, a well-turned phrase. She is superb company" (People).

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