“We tell ourselves stories in order to live…We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon… Read More Narrating Grief
By some strange coincidence, in the 6 months preceding my aunt’s death I had worked my way through three seminal ‘grief narratives’. I have half-joked to friends that I was sort of ‘studying up’, without knowing it, in preparation for what was to come. There really is no preparing for it, though. The best… Read More The Grief Book Club
One of the weirder things about grief is that all of the cliches – the ones you’ve seen play out on TV shows or movies, the ones you’ve read about it in books by more sophisticated authors who write in ways that mask the pallid clicheness – are true. It all comes to life… Read More On Grief
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