Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
Magic happened in writing those chapters. I felt as if I was reliving those early years of my mother through the storytelling. And of course, I knew my mother’s father, my grandfather, and my great aunts, who were a big part of my mother’s life and mine. I can’t explain it further. Are those chapters speculative? Is the entire book speculative? In the sense that we can’t fully know another individual I suppose in some ways this is true.
Thank you for quoting the line about how time exists in the present and deeply meaningful events of the past. This idea gave me comfort in thinking about my mother and what her life was like in the last years when she was ill with dementia. But we all draw on our memories for sustenance. I know that my mother drew heavily on her memories of my father and truly believed they would be united in the afterlife.
