Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
JB: The first part of the book was easier to write because I could rely on memory, as I remembered my mother through the various pivotal periods of her life. Chapters 11-13 required a different skill set because I wasn’t alive during those periods when my mother met my father, her high school and junior high school years, and then her early years of childhood. I was lucky that my mother kept scrapbooks and photo albums that I could draw from, and I remembered stories she told me and stories my relatives who knew my father and mother told me.
