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Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mothers life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.

When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter, Jill Bialosky. Grief, of course, but also guilt, confusion, and doubt, all of which were compounded by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic which made it impossible for Jill to be with her mother as she was dying and to attend her mothers funeral.

Now, with a poets eye for detail and a novelists flair for storytelling, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. Starting with her mothers end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, The End Is the Beginning explores Iriss battle with depression, the tragedy of a daughters suicide, a failed second marriage, the death of her beloved first husband only five years into their young marriage, her joyful teenage years, and the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iriss life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness.

As we see Iris become younger and younger, we learn how we are all the sum of our experiences. Iris becomes a multi-dimensional, fascinating woman. We come to understand her difficulties and shortcomings, her neediness and her generosity, her pride and her despair. The End Is the Beginning is not just a family memoir, it is a brave and compassionate celebration of a womans life and death and a window into a daughters inextricable bond to her mother.

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Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mothers life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.

Now, with a poets eye for detail and a novelists flair for storytelling, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. Starting with her mothers end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, The End Is the Beginning explores Iriss battle with depression, the tragedy of a daughters suicide, a failed second marriage, the death of her beloved first husband only five years into their young marriage, her joyful teenage years, and the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iriss life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness.

As we see Iris become younger and younger, we learn how we are all the sum of our experiences. Iris becomes a multi-dimensional, fascinating woman. We come to understand her difficulties and shortcomings, her neediness and her generosity, her pride and her despair. The End Is the Beginning is not just a family memoir, it is a brave and compassionate celebration of a womans life and death and a window into a daughters inextricable bond to her mother.

Exquisitely written [Bialosky] expresses deeply poignant feelings and insights spellbinding.Booklist

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The End Is the Beginning

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