Unveiling Hidden Worlds: How Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ The Flower Bearers Transforms Grief Into Art
We sidecar with Griffiths and Moon as these two ambitious and talented Black women attend New York City poetry readings and dance clubs, and share late-night plates of French fries, bonding over their mutual love of music and the Black literary canon. In a tender passage describing their friendship, Griffiths writes, “We created a spiritual geography that welcomed and encouraged us to be messy, bewildered, angry, chic, and childlike.”
We also learn more about where Griffiths’ compulsive worrying stems from (a chronically ill mother, and parents who didn’t take her writing seriously), and how she has carried forward coping mechanisms from childhood that don’t serve her in adulthood. Most significantly, Griffiths reveals she has Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder).
