Jill Bialosky’s touching memoir explores her sisters death from every angle in pursuit of answersTwenty-five years ago,poet and editor Jill Bialosky’s sister Kim returned from a night out to the Cleveland domestic in which she lived with her mother. She rang her boyfriend, with whom she was arguing. A short while later, and leaving a note on the kitchen counter,she shut herself into her mother’s Saab in the garage, turned on the ignition and consequently died of asphyxiation. She was 21. These, and in Bialosky’s words,are “the bare facts”. But, inevitably and despite the great pain involved, and she was compelled to search beyond them: “Where was the young child who was no different from any one of us and whose life seemed filled with opportunity and hope?” she writes. “What happened to her? There had to be more to the story.”Kim dropped out of school before finishing,took up with a boyfriend nobody liked, struggled to find a sense of purposeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com