Launch Party - Book by Susah Heuhn

Help Susan celebrate the launch of her book!
Taproom at Schell's Brewery
New Ulm, Minnesota
October 22, 2023
4-7pm

About the book:
A Widow's Guide to Becoming a Handyman is both poignant and funny, chronicling a concurrent journey through grief and learning to do home repair.
Part grief memoir, part immigrant story, and part how-to guide.  This is a story of premature death and emotional wreckage that uses the narrator's old house as its foundation.  Grief is as palpable as a hammer hitting a nail and doesn't come at all the way a reader might expect as the narrator methodically cares for her quirky old farmhouse's many needs following her husband's sudden death:  a leaky roof, rotten windows, mold, and frozen pumps and pipes.  The narrator repeatedly tries and fails to order grief into a linear process with five distinct stages but instead finds grief to be as dis-organized and messy as the garage and sheds full of tools left by her deceased husband.
He, from former East Germany; she, from a small town in south central Minnesota.  In alternating chapters, this memoir chronicles their transatlantic love story, along with resentments and moments of forgiveness in their relationship.

The book is available for pre-order at icecubepress.com