{"product_id":"the-end-is-the-beginning-a-personal-history-of-my-mother-9781451677935","title":"The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e- The New York Public Library\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With tenderness and candor, [a] nuanced and final farewell...Writing that is this fine is an act of emotional preservation.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Bialosky, the poet behind the \"tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eHistory of a Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother's life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIris Yvonne Bialosky's death in March 2020 unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter Jill--grief, guilt, confusion, doubt. Now, with her poet's eye for detail and novelist's flair for storytelling, Jill Bialosky presents a profoundly moving elegy of her mother's life--telling Iris's story in reverse order. Starting with her mother's end and the physical\/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, Bialosky traces Iris through her battle with depression, the tragedy of her youngest daughter's suicide, her strained and short second marriage, the death of her beloved first husband, which left her, at twenty-five years old, to care for three daughters under the age of three. We experience her joyful first marriage and busy teenage years, as well as the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. As Iris grows younger and younger, she becomes a multidimensional woman and we come to understand her difficulties and triumphs, her neediness and her generosity, her pride and her despair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End Is the Beginning \u003c\/i\u003eis a brave and compassionate celebration of a woman's life and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Washington Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451677935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Jill Bialosky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472926666933,"sku":"9781451677935","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bbd2c95c-ba1c-4675-b82b-30a362a5b061.jpg?v=1777444776","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-end-is-the-beginning-a-personal-history-of-my-mother-9781451677935","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}