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Invite the Tragedy: A Dialogue (opens the original)
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“Why do you do that to yourself?” a friend asked when I told her about the book I am reading, Things in Nature Merely Grow, and the author’s loss of both of her sons to suicide, six years apart.I knew what she meant: suicide, unimaginable grief and heartache, but I wasn’t ready to go there. Not yet. “What do you mean?” I asked. It was a weekday afternoon, and we were walking in our neighborhood like friends do. Two middle-schoolers sped by on bikes. Leaves skittered the sidewalk. The sun shone.
I published my memoir a year ago. (opens the original)
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I spent five years writing my memoir-in-essays, The Perils of Girlhood, and yet when it was published on September 1, 2025, I hadn’t really considered what life would be like for the 365 days to follow. I hoped that readers saw themselves in the pages. I hoped I might sell a few copies and that my mom would tell a friend or two to pick it up. But beyond that, I really didn’t know what to expect. Some of these things did occur, but much of what took place in the past year was beyond my imaginatio
Wrestle your demons on the page (opens the original)
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Last night, I was woken by the realization of how to end an in-progress essay. It’s a piece about swimming pools, and it wasn’t until then that I realized that my daughters needed to return closer to the conclusion of the essay in order to show the narrator’s (my) progression. Waking in the middle of the night to an essay realization is new to me, but a sense of a narrator wrestling with something compels me to turn pages. Yet getting such interiority or innermost thoughts onto the page is not e
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