In Bag of Bones, for instance, main character Mike Noonan is a fortyish writer who, as the book opens, has just lost his wife to a brain aneurysm.

比如《尸骨袋》中的主要人物麦克·岁的作家，小说开始的时候，他的妻子刚刚因为脑动脉瘤病逝。