Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
To say The End is the Beginning is a story of mothers and daughters, absolutely true. To say it is about grief and loss, also true. To identify it as a memoir about family dynamics, inherited trauma, and reinvention would be an understatement. We follow Jill and her mother Iris, through some tumultuous decades, unstoppable change, all while exploring the roles of wife, mother, daughter, and even grandmother, highlighting that we are all a sum of our experiences.
This is a story about change and reinvention, about holding on and letting go. As Bialosky writes, “The end is my mother’s beginning, too, and my beginning. And in the end is the beginning of who we are. The end and the beginning are in each of us.”
