Weep For The Living by Anne Butler Ma

Weep For The Living by Anne Butler Ma

Yes, perhaps he'd made a mistake in leaving his wife of many years to marry Anne. We all make such mistakes, but we don't torture and kill the lovers who fail our dreams. At seventy he had wanted the lively 46-year-old Anne, courted her, won her. 'A less formal arrangement, a simple affair, would have made much more sense', say we who live in other places. But we don't live in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and we aren't these two people.
--From the foreword by Abigail Padgett, author of Child of Silence

Anne Butler's autobiographical narrative of her husband's attempt to murder her after seven years of marriage is a compelling and surprisingly compassionate story of true love turned
true crime.
Ms. Butler's story of survival details the unraveling of her marriage to Murray Henderson, a former warden of Louisiana's high-security Angola Prison, and her journey of recovery and redemption following the crime. This is her attempt to understand why Henderson tried to kill her; why he felt, as he put it, there [was] no other option. It is an engaging tale of forgiveness, filled with insightful passages and heart-stopping details. But it is not just her story; it gives a voice to what in the past has too often been a silent crime, and it has lessons for women everywhere. Said one reader to the author, You speak for us all.
The setting of Weep for the Living is Ms. Butler's family plantation home, Butler Greenwood Plantation Bed and Breakfast, where Ms. Butler is the chatelaine. The author of a dozen books, including children's books, cookbooks, travel books, and nonfiction on criminal justice, Ms. Butler also wrote Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook, named Best New Cookbook of the Year by Louisiana Life magazine.

Anne Butler is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Francisville and runs the Butler Greenwood Plantation, which has been in her family since the 1790s, as a bed and breakfast. She has reached a wide audience with essays published in the Los Angeles Times, Country Woman, New Orleans Magazine, and Country Road, all inspired by her passion for culture. Pelican's Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook, Bayou Plantation Country Cookbook, Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook, The Pelican Guide to Plantation Houses of Louisiana, and her memoir, Weep for the Living, are among her other works.