When Jesmyn Ward was writing her 2013 book, Men We Reaped, she could feel the presence of her brother, who had been killed years earlier by a drunk driver. She still talks to him, as well as to her partner, who died in 2020. This may just be wishful thinking, but talking to them and being open to feeling them answer, that enables me to live in spite of their loss, she told me.
Working on the show was a way to still live with her, in a way, she said: There's something that's less scary about sharing time with my sister when it's through art or through making the show or through a song. One of the many things you learn after losing a loved one is that there are a lot of us grieving out there.
Collection
[
|
...
]