DAYS OF SORROW: WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND TO DIE

     SYNOPSIS

"For twenty two years she considered us soul mates... I thought so too; but as we grew into different rhythms of life’s challenges, I discovered that forever was not enough time to spend with her. The melodies of life’s daily living and existing were dictating the steps to this great dance. A distanced dance between two hearts that once celebrated the embodiments of human relationship: this thing called love. It only took her forty five days to turn her hurt and pain into brutal resentment. I left her at the altar of mistrust, betrayal and deceit. I betrayed her……….."

"This lady sitting beside me had resisted the doctor’s recommendation to terminate her mother’s life by switching off the life support machine. She refused because of thirty seconds of painful gasp for breath when the machine is disconnected from her mother.  And after a sixteen hour shift as a nurse in a mental institution, she drove down to the nursing home where her mom lived; just to kiss her, make sure she was still connected to life before returning to her husband in their apartment he had left her dying Jimmy in the care of her friends. Doctors at John Hopkins Hospital say he’s got few months to live. I just have to wait. Am losing my Jimmy and my mother is barely breathing waits for her husband to die….. They just told him his wife had two weeks to live and as they drove home, he was imagining his next pool game at his regular spots bar. Soon after they got home from this visit: he said he pulled to the front door of their home and asked his wife out of the car, She gathered her failing body, slowly, gently exit the car and before she walked inside the building she, reached through the passenger’s window and whispered to him” honey, I love you”…He heard the whispers but never looked at her. He was backing out the driveway on his way to pick a female friend to the bar and shoot pools."

This is a moving story about deceit, lies and cheating in marriage. Narrated in the multiple voices of anguish, torment, torture and pain. The essential core of this novel is a kaleidoscope of a dysfunctional life, living and mere existing. Portrayal is by different characters in different manifestations. Imagine a bomb blasting a serene Sunday breakfast.  There is also a dear dark darling at a train station waiting for the death of her husband; a man feeling the stringing pain of yesterday playing pools while his wife dies quietly at home of breast cancer and a mother waiting for post cards from her dad 22 years after he walked away from the family: father’s last note to a son on death row wishing him death by execution. 

This year’s best tear jerking happy ending fiction: "DAYS OF SORROW; WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND TO DIE" written by Nigeria's former Entertainment Editor of The Punch newspapers and Onicha Ugbo native, Azuka Jebose Molokwu, is now in Paperbacks at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com