Unfolding Secrets: Jill Christman Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind The Heart Folds Early
Christman writes about hard things: the sexual abuse she endured as a child, the sudden death of her first great love when she was 19, the terrors of raising kids, of which the googly eye pales next to the omnipresence of predators and gun violence in the U.S. Yet no matter how dark her subject, she walks herself and her readers through it with compassion and a willingness to simply be in whatever moment she’s inviting us to share. Trauma is never a punchline. Yet I find myself smiling unexpectedly whenever I read her work.
