A mother is dying in London; a marriage is ending in New York. These are the elegiac threads—and two strong women—that run through PETER GODWIN’s aptly titled memoir, Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, the story of a witty, wounded 60-something-year old man reckoning with loss. The author of six celebrated nonfiction books and an intrepid war correspondent, Godwin was born in Zimbabwe and his evocative memoir vibrates with the original loss of his childhood homeland. He offers a moving self-portrait of a fiercely articulate, grieving male losing his strong, stiff-upper-lip “mum” and his strong, independent wife at the same time. Godwin will talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning author ANDREA ELLIOTT about his choice to write the memoir and his relationships with the women and places that shaped his life.