The sweetness of misfortune

A reading started and ended at the death of my spouse, with a mixture of curiosity and fear.
Colin Diane lost her husband and Clara, their daughter. His life continues with attachment points for The People, the literary café (read the two previous books is by no means essential) which Felix is ​​both the backbone and the inevitable gay friend.
Without exhibitionism nor pathos, gently and without sentimentality, Agnes Martin-Lugand describes the survival of Diana and his overtures to a new life. Without psychological jargon about grief, she led the drive on smooth paths described with modesty and sensibility.

Here is an excerpt (p.199) which is a fairly representative snapshot of the woman being followed with interest and emotion, reconstruction:

"I repeated it again the same evening we were invited to dinner with friends -. The chirping young parents put my nerves to the test from the first second This perfect little family image was unbearable to me,.. and I knew why. It reminded me of what we were Colin and Clara. They were careless, all their happiness, not thinking for one second that anything could tip over. Life had put in my path a home which n ' was worked by authorship and transmission of genetic heritage I had everything I needed, however, I realized that I preferred the company of people battered by life -.. it moved me, it gave me a shot whip. "