A Widow for One Year vs Rainbow's End: Which Should You Read?

A Widow for One Year John Irving · 1998 ★★★★☆ 3.8 576 pages · ≈ 10 h 40 m · Moderate

“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking--it was coming from her parents' bedroom.”

“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow…

Rainbow's End Irene Hannon · 2007 ★★★★☆ 3.9 251 pages · ≈ 4 h 39 m · Moderate

To lessen the pain of his wife's death, Keith Michaels headed cross-country. When he reached the Pacific Northwest, he still felt broken, empty and alone. When a sudden storm stranded him on Orcas Island, he sought…