Great Regulars: I had never planned to write a memoir,

but as I got deeper into it, I felt my obligation was to render the experience in as three-dimensional a manner as possible. I had to bring the same scrutiny to myself, to examine myself almost as a character in a novel. The act of writing became part of the act of mourning.

from Meghan O'Rourke: The Wall Street Journal: Author Meghan O'Rourke On Losing Her Mother

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