Grief Work as Autotheory: Sisterhood, Suicide and Art

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non—fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental autobiography and life writing scholarship. Written by Meg Jensen, a scholar whose career has focused on how we process trauma through writing, this memoir explores the author's own experience of losing her sister to suicide. Bringing in literary touchstones such as Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as artists like Vincent van Gogh and Thomas Gainsborough, J...