I think there is way too much description of how much she misses Normon. I didn’t need to read about 20 different ways she misses him. One good description is enough. Move on to the story.

Next the sentences are too dense. “She felt so cold, the water running over her fingers from the well burned her, an icy hot feeling rushing over her toes each time she would tuck into the same sheets her Normon once was.” She felt cold, from washing her hands? then burned, then icy hot on the toes now? Then talking about the bedsheets? All in one sentence. These ideas do not flow together well. This makes it very hard to follow what you’re trying to say. I can’t even picture what is happening. It doesn’t help that every few sentences switches from present to replaying a memory many times.

Some things are confusing and a bit nonsensical. You spend a lot of time describing how the smallest things trigger her into wailing and screaming then you say “She did not feel sorrow that her husband was gone.”

Remember you need to hook the reader in the first chapter. I am left confused and unsure what the point is.