Reseña del libro "The Ghost Marriage: A Memoir"
At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than shed dared to expect. Twenty-two years later, Steve has turned into someone quite different. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. Whats more, hes been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. So she divorces himbut after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. Its then that she finally understands: The man shed married was a needy, addictive person who came wrapped in a shiny package.As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlifewhich lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discoverythat life isnt limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers.