The Widower's Tale
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass is the story of Percival Darling. He still lives in the house where his daughters grew up – “the house of her mother’s heart” according to Clover, Percy’s eldest daughter. Percy is a 70 year old who runs everyday to get in shape to die and who fantasizes of a quasi-Luddite retirement - “Cursed be the cursors; farewell to iEverything and its pertly nicknamed apps.” When Percy reflects on his life, he says, “…for most of my life, I’ve fancied myself a passenger on a train as it moves along through various landscapes. Some are repeated, some are unique–some ugly, some magnificent. But now… now I feel as if I’m a fixed point in the landscape itself, the trains passing me by. Each one faster than the one before.”
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