About the book
Available As Is
A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love
Widowed at 50 after losing the husband she’d been with since she was a teenager, Debbie Weiss found herself alone for the first time in her adult life—and completely unprepared for modern dating. Through bad dates, wrong turns, heartbreak, and unexpected relationships, she began discovering who she was on her own and how to build a life she never expected.
Available As Is is a candid, funny, and deeply moving memoir about grief, reinvention, unexpected love, and the messy business of beginning again.
Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Grief/Grieving
Readers' Favorite Book Award Medalist
National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist
Praise for Available As is:
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
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
A brave, honest look into the trials and tribulations of dating as a middle-aged widowed person. Weiss’s debut memoir is at once poignant and entertaining, and ultimately helps us to realize that the most important relationship we'll ever have is the one we have with ourselves.” —Jenny Lisk, author of Future Widow and host of The Widowed Parent Podcast
This is a deeply personal story but one that Weiss shares with a beguiling openness and wit…A sharply written, heartfelt dating account that proves both enriching and amusing. — Kirkus Reviews