The chapter delves into the guest's unique upbringing, highlighting their eccentricities and how their parents fostered their storytelling abilities. It discusses growing up in a cold city with quirky seasons, early narrative tendencies, and childhood experiences like pretending a toy dog was real. Anecdotes from their childhood writings and reflections on mortality and anxiety are shared.
Writer Amy Lin deconstructs grief in her new memoir ‘Here After,’ a beautifully visceral and emotionally intimate depiction of young widowhood. She joins to discuss the science of grief and how she coped in the wake of her inexplicable loss.