Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
Do you write memoir? I do, and I hope you will join me in the inspiration I found within Rehearsals for Dying. Many a memoir workshop and seminar usually riffs on the following theme: you need perspective to write a memoir. You need to emotionally and chronologically distance yourself from the events you write about.
Generally speaking, this is fine advice, but the lack of that distance is what makes Rehearsals for Dying so powerful a read. I won’t lie: There were two times where I had to put the book down because my crying jags were so painful. The grief in Ariel’s chronicle of her wife Deena’s lived experience of stage 4 breast cancer is precisely effective because it is written from such a raw perspective.
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