“Grief is ever present. It's not like this little cloud that hangs above my head. That's not it. It's the fact that it is a lens through which I view the world and all my relationships constantly. I cannot take off that lens.”
~ Sarah Chaves
In this week’s episode, author Sarah Chaves brings us a rich and stirringly honest conversation about grieving as a mom, daughter and writer who began crafting her story of loss right after her dad died. She walks us into a deeply cathartic moment on that writing journey, opens up about how grief has affected the dynamics in her family relationships and how she both welcomes and feels burdened by playing the role of gatherer and tender. Sarah also unapologetically speaks to the presence of anger in her life, which came as a big surprise after her son was born.
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Sarah Chaves is a Portuguese-American writer, editor, and educator based in Boston, MA. She has received nonfiction scholarships and fellowships from PEN America, Fulbright, Bread Loaf, Disquiet, and more. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a transatlantic memoir about her father’s untimely death in the Azores.
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This Is Us Gets So Many Things Right—but I Think It Takes the Easy Route With Grief
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