The End Is the Beginning

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 wh