{"product_id":"the-end-is-the-beginning-a-personal-history-of-my-mother-paperback","title":"The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Bialosky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY: The New Yorker - The New York Public Library - The Times Literary Supplement (London) \"With tenderness and candor, [a] nuanced and final farewell...Writing that is this fine is an act of emotional preservation.\" --TheWall Street Journal Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the \"tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir\" (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother's life, told in reverse order from burial to birth.Iris 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. The End Is the Beginning is a brave and compassionate celebration of a woman's life and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Bialosky is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eAsylum.\u003c\/i\u003e Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is the author of many novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Deceptions\u003c\/i\u003e, and several works of nonfiction including \u003ci\u003eThe End Is the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory of a Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Will Save Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2015, Jill was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to the field of poetry. She lives in New York City. Find out more at JillBialosky.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49137882595480,"sku":"9781451677935","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/guQYBtApul9781451677935.webp?v=1779349964","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-end-is-the-beginning-a-personal-history-of-my-mother-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}