Unfolding Secrets: Jill Christman Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind The Heart Folds Early
Jill Christman: I’m a serial memoirist, so I’m not fresh to writing the big stuff of my life; but, whew, this one was hard. Not because it was too painful for me. I mean, it was painful, but writing is how I make sense of the world, so even if publishing weren’t a thing, I would have tried to put language to the experience of losing this baby. What was hard about writing The Heart Folds Early is that publishing is a thing, and while I wanted to find the words to tell my own story, I didn’t want my telling to hurt anyone else. I didn’t want my story to apply pressure on somebody else’s story.
