A Still Life: A Memoir
By: Josie George
4.28
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Josie George lives in a tiny terraced house in the urban West Midlands with her son. Since her earl…
Want to Read"It was the cruellest and worst and most necessary thing I have ever done, and I have never regretted it, not once."-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
"It was the cruellest and worst and most necessary thing I have ever done, and I have never regretted it, not once."-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
"The older you get, the harder it is to experience a singular grief. Instead, when loss comes again, it doesn't bring something solid all the way through or isolated, it brings you a Russian doll. Loss comes; a new layer of grief forms. And instead of staying still, it opens, and out all the others pour, popping into their composite forms until you are sitting surrounded by an eager, bleeding crowd of them. Grief is cumulative and to feel one kind is to feel at least a little of them all, renewed. When I wake from the shock, there it is, right here in my hands. All my past losses, nestled."-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
"The older you get, the harder it is to experience a singular grief. Instead, when loss comes again, it doesn't bring something solid all the way through or isolated, it brings you a Russian doll. Loss comes; a new layer of grief forms. And instead of staying still, it opens, and out all the others pour, popping into their composite forms until you are sitting surrounded by an eager, bleeding crowd of them. Grief is cumulative and to feel one kind is to feel at least a little of them all, renewed. When I wake from the shock, there it is, right here in my hands. All my past losses, nestled."-Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir
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20. A Still Life: A Memoir
By: Josie George
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Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
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