The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Bialosky, Jill

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451677935)

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The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Bialosky, Jill

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother

$20.00
The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Bialosky, Jill

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY: The New Yorker - The New York Public Library - The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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.

Iris Yvonne Bialosky's death in March 2020 unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter Jill--grief, guilt, confusion, doubt. Now, with her poet's eye for detail and novelist's flair for storytelling, Jill Bialosky presents a profoundly moving elegy of her mother's life--telling Iris's story in reverse order. Starting with her mother's end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, Bialosky traces Iris through her battle with depression, the tragedy of her youngest daughter's suicide, her strained and short second marriage, the death of her beloved first husband, which left her, at twenty-five years old, to care for three daughters under the age of three. We experience her joyful first marriage and busy teenage years, as well as the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. As Iris grows younger and younger, she becomes a multidimensional woman and we come to understand her difficulties and triumphs, her neediness and her generosity, her pride and her despair.

The End Is the Beginning is a brave and compassionate celebration of a woman's life and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother.

Author: Jill Bialosky
ISBN-10: 1451677936
ISBN-13: 9781451677935
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.68d
By Jill Bialosky
By Jill Bialosky
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Jill Bialosky is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Asylum. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among others. She is the author of many novels, including The Deceptions, and several works of nonfiction including The End Is the Beginning, History of a Suicide, and Poetry Will Save Your Life. In 2015, Jill was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to the field of poetry. She lives in New York City. Find out more at JillBialosky.com.

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