Mother Jones
US · 1 hrs ago
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The Obscure Word That Helped Novelist Jesmyn Ward Process Her Grief
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A first-person essay explores how novelist Jesmyn Ward's work and language helped the writer process grief after multiple family losses, using a specific obscure word as a focal point for understanding emotional response to death.
The Obscure Word That Helped Novelist Jesmyn Ward Process Her Grief
When I buried my father, a man who bequeathed me his entire face but very little of his time, I turned to words from Jesmyn Ward. I didn’t feel appropriately shaken, and certainly this was a problem. By my late 20s, half my family spanning four generations were dead, each person lost to some calamity […]
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