While caring for his wife in the hospital, Dickstein contemplates the legacy of his late father, the probability of his wife's future widowhood, and other familial queries brought to the surface in his wife's Freudian summer course.

A man suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, a Russian man studying in the United States reconnects with his estranged, ludicrously Communist grandfather. Through letters, phone calls, and eBay, they bond over their shared experiences with death and Soviet life.

The wife of a poet documents her marriage of five years as it tumultuously unravels during one summer in Maine.

In rural 1950s Pennsylvania, a man processes his wife's death alongside his tight-knit family. As he gathers courage to tend his wife's grave, he must rely on his siblings more than ever before.

A three-years-married couple have lost the spark that once excited them, leading the wife to venture into tentative love affairs.

Three months after the death of his wife, a man tries to convince himself that he has not truly suffered a loss, all the while missing his wife more than ever.

A seventy-something-year-old woman dutifully visits her husband's grave only to realize that she contributed to the unhappiness of her marriage by letting her husband die lonely and unwanted.

Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.