Carla Malden grew up in a Hollywood house, the daughter of actor Karl Malden (with whom she worked on his memoir, When Do I Start) and after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA also worked in the entertainment industry, writing 12 plus screenplays with her now-deceased husband, Laurence Starkman. Now, Malden writes and lives without a partner – she details how in her just published memoir,
“AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Lifeâ€
“When you lose someone, well-meaning people give you books full of supposedly uplifting platitudes—‘time heals all wounds,’ ‘there is a purpose to this,’ ‘you will find closure’—but I found them useless,†Carla Malden recalls. “So I decided to write an honest, in-the-trenches account of my own experience. Basically, I wrote AFTERIMAGE to save my own life.†And in so doing, Mald
en has offered a compelling alert for the forever-young generation: this is not your mother’s widowhood.
“It’s younger, hipper, and more real than most books on coping with the grave illness and death of a spouse, so it strikes a chord with baby boomer widows,†she explains. “But I have discovered that it also resonates with a wider audience; everyone experiences loss. Everyone experiences love and, in the end this is a love story.â€
AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life
is published by Globe Pequot Press and available online and at booksellers everywhere.
