In which I talk to the acclaimed Israeli-Canadian author about grief, healing, and whether losing our dads when we were kids made us grow up faster or slower
After reading this excellent interview, and having met and work-shopped for a week with Ayelet, reading your own Substack essays, and considering my responses to my father's death (when I was 10) -- I see similarity after similarity in our responses. And in being 'caught between the chairs' as Ayelet phrased it, caught up in an emotional storm but with nowhere to go, a mother immersed in her own grief. . . and it's taken decades for each of us to recognize what had really happened to us -- and to our childhood. Thanks Debby
Wow, Jean, those years we spent in our writing group and I’m not sure I knew all that… Thank you for sharing. And for your positive response to my work!
You and Ayelet were fated to have this revelatory conversation.
See, Debby?? Exactly what Rona said.
You noticed! I thought the same.
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Thank you!
After reading this excellent interview, and having met and work-shopped for a week with Ayelet, reading your own Substack essays, and considering my responses to my father's death (when I was 10) -- I see similarity after similarity in our responses. And in being 'caught between the chairs' as Ayelet phrased it, caught up in an emotional storm but with nowhere to go, a mother immersed in her own grief. . . and it's taken decades for each of us to recognize what had really happened to us -- and to our childhood. Thanks Debby
Wow, Jean, those years we spent in our writing group and I’m not sure I knew all that… Thank you for sharing. And for your positive response to my work!