The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life chronicles the challenges and triumphs of seven men who were left to raise young children after their wives died. For four years, the men took part in an innovative support group that the authors led at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The men encouraged each other through painful setbacks and celebrated increasingly frequent successes as they learned to parent on their own and embrace life anew.

In the tradition of the best bereavement memoirs, The Group shares poignant personal stories of loss and...