“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
AE: No, they’re talking about the emotional stuff in it.
EC: The feelings. The people. But they learned the science, too. Also, you asked about ‘how do you keep going?’ and we made a joke about me being a Taurus. But the other thing that kept me going was that I was surrounded by a community that believed in me as an artist, even when I was really broke and in dire straits as a single mother with a chronic illness that was beginning to disable me. Working freelance. Paying for expensive health insurance. Hustling five or six jobs. Trying to write these books and research them without any institutional net at all, without a book contract, without a grant, without a job in academia.
