A Widow’s Story: A MemoirMy husband died, my life collapsed. On a February morning, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. In less than a week, Ray was dead and Joyce was faced totally unprepared with the reality of widowhood. In this beautiful and heart breaking account, Joyce takes us through what it is to become a widow: the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the