Jill Bialosky

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Jill Bialosky |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My MotherPoet, novelist, and Norton executive editor Bialosky (Asylum) delivers a nuanced portrait of her mother, Iris, who died in 2020. Telling the story in reverse, Bialosky opens with Iris’s death from Alzheimer’s while in hospice in Ohio, then highlights the challenges of caring for an aging parent long-distance from New York City: “The painful absence and loneliness at the core of her life frightens me,” Bialosky writes.