“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
AE: You and I have been in the same writing group for a good dozen some years. I’ve gotten to watch this whole process up close, which has been very exciting. You got told “No,” a lot with this book, “this is beautiful, we don’t know how to sell this. I love what you’re doing, but I don’t know what to do with it.” But you just kept going and going and eventually pieces of it were published in LitHub and Al Jazeera. Then of course, you won the Whiting and then boom! Both the memoir and the novel were released within three months of each other, which is kind of insane. I mean. Besides knowing you’re a Taurus …
