Unveiling Secrets and Loss: Jill Bialosky’s Intimate Journey Through Grief and Memory
JB: When I was working on Asylum I was thinking about what survives and perishes and the natural world became threaded into my inquiry. In writing The End is the Beginning I was thinking about regeneration, and about how the dead live inside us after they’ve gone, and I’m glad the imagery came into the writing. I wanted to bring my mother alive again in this book and to see what more I might discover about her, and about me. Writing has always been a way of thinking for me. Weather is a powerful force in our lives. Our moods shift when the sun is out, or when it’s cold and rainy. In fact, I edited an anthology about writers on weather called Gigantic Cinema: Writers on Weather. And too, as a poet, my eye is very much trained to metaphor.
