Dr. Kari G. Borgmann’s One Year Gives Voice to Grief, Reinvention, and the Unspoken Strength of Starting Over
Grief rarely follows a straight line, and healing is seldom graceful. In her emotionally resonant debut novel, One Year , Dr. Kari G. Borgmann captures this truth with unflinching honesty, offering readers a story that reflects the quiet, complicated reality of loss—and the unexpected possibility of renewal. One Year tells the story of a woman whose life collapses when her husband of thirty-eight years dies suddenly. With her children living far away and her carefully ordered existence gone, she finds herself suspended between who she was and who she might become. When a short-term work opportunity takes her to Iowa, she encounters a man who has deliberately closed himself off from love for fifteen years. Their meeting is not planned, not simple, and not free of consequences. Rather than centering on romance alone, One Year explores the emotional aftermath of long-term partnership, the loneliness that follows profound loss, and the courage required to imagine a future that...
