Novel, man finds dead wife’s hair all over apartment, eventually finds final hair inavocado plant she grew.

This book was recommended to me a few weeks ago but I forgot the author’s name and the person who recommended it to me didn’t know the title. I think it’s by a male author. The plot basically goes that a man loses his wife, and after she dies finds strands of her hair all over their apartment. He eventually finds fewer and fewer, until he repots the avocado plant she grew, and finds a single strand of thick black hair, and breaks down weeping. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help me find it, it was really important to me.

I don't know about a novel, but there is a poem by Jack Gilbert with all of those elements called "Married." Not sure where it's collected. Jack Gilbert

>2 jollyavis: The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert contains the poem you suggested. Hope this helps.

Married

I came back from the funeral and crawled
around the apartment, crying hard,
searching for my wife's hair.
For two months got them from the drain,
from the vacuum cleaner, under the refrigerator,
and off the clothes in the closet.
But after other Japanese women came,
there was no way to be sure which were
hers, and I stopped. A year later,
repotting Michiko's avocado, I find
a long black hair tangled in the dirt.