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Authors Andy Beach Paula Bernstein Alexandra Chasin Erin Courtney Anthony Dardis Adam Davies Jill Dearman Adam Fawer Marian Fontana Andy Greenwald Alex Halberstadt Ann Marie Healy Anna Lappe Bryan Mealer Aimee Molloy Aaron Naparstek Amanda Petrusich Margo Rabb Ann Rittenberg Alexandra Schwartz Jacob Slichter Alison Smith Amy Sohn Susan Gregory Thomas Jonah Winter Alice Wu Adam Zucker View All

buy at amazon buy at barnes & noble A Widow's Walk Marian Fontana Sept. 2006 Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group; ISBN: 0743298241 From the Publisher On September 11, I dropped my son off at his second full day of kindergarten. The sky was so blue it looked as if it had been ironed. I crossed the street, ordered coffee, and sat to wait for my husband to meet me. It was our eighth wedding anniversary and Dave and I were about to begin a new chapter in our seventeen years together. Sipping coffee, I watched as a line of thick black smoke crept across the sky from Manhattan, oblivious to the fact that my life was about to change forever. On September 11, 2001, Marian Fontana lost her husband, Dave, a firefighter from the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn, in the World Trade Center attack. A Widow's Walk begins that fateful morning, when Marian, a playwright and comedienne, became a widow, a single mother, and an unlikely activist. Two weeks after 9/11, the city attempted to close Squad 1, which had suffered the loss of twelve men. Known for her feisty spirit and passionate loyalty, Marian, who was still reeling from her profound loss, began to mobilize the neighborhood to keep the firehouse open. From this unlikely platform the 9/11 Widows and Victims' Families Association grew. Over the next twelve months, Marian struggled with the tragedy's endless ripple effects, from the minute and deeply personal — she wonders who will play Star Wars with her son, Aidan, and carry him on his shoulders — to the political. She works to get families and widows necessary information about the recovery effort and attends private meetings with Governor Pataki, Mayor Giuliani, Senator Clinton, and Mayor Bloomberg. Through it all, Marian's irrepressible humor is her best armor and evidence of her buoyant strength. Written with greatheart and humanity, A Widow's Walk is a timely opportunity for remembrance and a timeless testament to love's loss and the resilience of the human spirit. buy at amazon buy at barnes & noble Money Changes Everything Marian Fontana January 2007 Double Day Publishing; ISBN: 038551669X Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune Edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell From the Publisher We talk openly about our romantic disasters and family dramas, our problems at work and our battles with addiction. But when it comes to what is or is not in our wallets, we remain determinedly mum. Until now, that is. MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING is the first anthology of its kind-an unflinching and on-the-record collection of essays filled with entertaining, enlightening insights into why we spend, save, and steal. In these wide-ranging personal essays, Daniel Handler, Walter Kirn, Jill McCorkle, Meera Nair, Henry Alford, Susan Choi, and other acclaimed authors write with startling candor about how money has strengthened or undermined their closest relationships. Isabel Rose talks about the trials and tribulations of dating as an heiress. Tony Serra explains what led him to take a forty-year vow of poverty. 9/11 widow Marian Fontana illuminates the heartbreak and moral complexities of victim compensation. Jonathan Dee reveals the debt that nearly did him in. And in paired essays, Fred Leebron and his wife, Kathryn Rhett, discuss the way fights over money have shaken their marriage to the core again and again. The pieces in MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING range from the comic to the harrowing, yet they all reveal the complex, emotionally charged role money plays in our lives by shattering the wall of silence that has long surrounded this topic.