Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
There were times when I questioned the legitimacy of writing this book. I have written about parts of these challenges as Emily Dickinson would say by telling it slant in poetry and in my first novel, House Under Snow, and certainly in my memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. This book was different. I lost my mother during COVID and couldn’t be with her because of restrictions for travel and quarantine. That broke my heart. I think I realized then that my mother’s story was worth telling and revealing through the very small prism of her daughter. We need to be reminded of the challenges faced by women of that era where the patriarch loomed—it may, for all we know, happen again, as restrictions of freedom begin to narrow.
