Faith is wilder, more beautiful, and more human than we’ve believed.

Karen Stiller calls herself Bossy Widow. Her friends are Kind Widow and Young Widow. Together, the Wids eat Greek takeout, laugh at the strange things people say in the face of death, remember the men they loved, and discover that grief can hold sorrow, friendship, faith, regret, tenderness, and even a dance floor.

A pilgrimage through Norway becomes an unexpected encounter with grief, faith, and Randy, a physician whose life has carried him from Kenya to Burundi to Seattle. Along the way, Sara Billups discovers his uncommon gift: the ability to hold suffering and hope, the practical and the miraculous, in the same steady presence.