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The snares of grief

Pathways, not closure
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April 2022, no. 441

Found, Wanting: A memoir by Natasha Sholl

Ultimo Press, $32.99 hb, 279 pp

The snares of grief

Pathways, not closure
by
April 2022, no. 441
Natasha Sholl (photograph via the author's website)
Natasha Sholl (photograph via the author's website)

We all seem to be thinking about grief lately. As Covid keeps many of us away from loved ones and people who are dying or have just expired, how we process death has received a renewed focus. The number of memoirs and guides and stories about grief and loss that have been published in the past two years – over two hundred – is staggering. It is a challenge to write about grief. Every society on earth has its own forms and rituals around grieving, its own texts on what grieving is like. Trying to find something new or original to say is daunting. What we are left with are our own words, our own terrible experiences to put down upon the page.

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'Found, Wanting: A memoir' by Natasha Sholl

Found, Wanting: A memoir

by Natasha Sholl

Ultimo Press, $32.99 hb, 279 pp

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