Unveiling the Hidden Journey of Grief: Matthew Salesses’ Profound Exploration in ‘To Grieve is To Carry Another Time’
Salesses notes that the longer two people build a shared life, the more difficult returning to solitude becomes. The continuity breaks and the survivor must choose to move forward while carrying the past or to remain suspended in an “imaginary present” in which only the past is real. In a kind of answer, the book turns toward the living because it must: there are children in it, a second marriage, and the absurd, tender logistics of a household that grief does not excuse from operating. “To grieve is to feel that you are in the wrong time,” Salesses writes, adding “The same is true of love.”
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