Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
“As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.” — Jill Bialosky
LL: The End is the Beginning tackles some really emotionally challenging material. Dementia, ageing parents, suicide, infant loss, spousal death, downsizing and leaving a childhood home. It’s not a story of rainbows and puppies, that’s for sure. Can you talk a little about writerly self-care while working on such emotionally challenging material?
JB: Yes, there is emotionally challenging material in this book. As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences. When you stack up the losses it does feel overwhelming, but those are losses I have endured, and I continue to hold those I have lost in my thoughts and consciousness.
