Unveiling the Hidden Journey of Grief: Matthew Salesses’ Profound Exploration in ‘To Grieve is To Carry Another Time’
The memoir enacts everything his Craft in the Real World argued — that plot, closure, and “moving on” are conventions, not truths, and that other traditions of storytelling hold differing possibilities. And while many grief memoirs treat loss strictly as subject: this is what happened to me, Salesses instead treats grief as an instrument for understanding grief. On my bookshelf, I’ll place it near The Year of Magical Thinking, Crying in H Mart, and Things in Nature Merely Grow. It’s rigorous, high stakes, and philosophical in equal measure.
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