The end is the beginning: a personal history of my mother

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Bialosky, Jill

Bialosky, Jill

Fuquay-Varina Community
North Regional
Zebulon Community

Biography

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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 mother's 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 mother's funeral. Now, with a poet's eye for detail and a novelist's flair for storytelling, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. Starting with her mother's end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, The End Is the Beginning explores Iris's battle with depression, the tragedy of a daughter's 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, Iris's 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 woman's life and death and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother"--

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2025-08-03T09:17:43.294Z

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Non Fiction

B BIALOSKY

Six Months
Year

Wake County Public Libraries

East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Zebulon Community

9781451677928

2025

Washington Square Press/Atria

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Autobiographies
Bialosky, Iris Yvonne, -- 1933-2020
Bialosky, Jill -- Family
Biographies
Grief
Mothers and daughters

The end is the beginning : a personal history of my mother

The end is the beginning : a personal history of my mother / Jill Bialosky

The end is the beginning

a personal history of my mother

Bialosky, Iris Yvonne
Bialosky, Jill
Family
Grief
Mothers and daughters