What happens when the love of your life dies at 53, and you’re left to build an entirely new life?
Available As Is is a funny, candid and deeply honest memoir about grief, dating after widowhood and discovering that happiness can return in surprising ways.
This book is for readers who have ever
- wondered whether life could ever feel joyful again after a devastating loss
- had to start over at midlife
- found themselves laughing while grieving-and might have felt guilty abut that
- dreaded dating after a long time being partnered
- questioned if there really could be a second act
- love stories that are both heartbreaking but also funny.
About Available AS IS
Available As Is is an award-winning memoir about rebuilding a life after devastating loss—and discovering that starting over at fifty can be both heartbreaking and unexpectedly funny.
After losing my husband and high school sweetheart of thirty-two years, I stumbled through grief, online dating, reinvention, and the messy process of becoming a person again. The result is a memoir about love, resilience, second chances, and learning that life doesn’t end just because the one you planned does.
Unlike many grief memoirs, Available As Is doesn’t stop with loss. It’s about what comes afterward—the awkward dating, the mistakes, the humor, the friendships, and the surprising possibility of creating a joyful life you never planne
Released Sept 12th, 2022
Praise for Available As is:
“With unflinching honesty, Weiss lays out her road from loving marriage, to grieving widow, to dating again. Eye-opening to some and painfully relatable to others, Available As Is is brave, authentic, and exceedingly validating for others working to find love in these disconnected times.”
—Ann Garvin, USA Today best-selling author of I Thought You Said This Would Work
“A sudden widow at fifty, Debbie Weiss captures the absurdity of modern dating as a grown up. With unexpected humor and much-welcome hope, Available As Is is a deeply moving story of trying to build a new life after loss.”
—Allison Gilbert, author of Listen, World! and Passed and Present
Scorchingly honest, romantic, funny, desperate, and heartbreaking, Debbie Weiss’s memoir Available As is may be the widow’s story of the millennium. Read it and weep. Read it and rejoice.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean