Jhumpa Lahiri
Thresholds
How Do You Survive Your Mother's Death
The loss of my mother was one of the most upsetting transformation of my life to date. When you watch a person die, your so aware that they are on the threshold, and you accompany them across the threshold. And in fact, when my mother was dying, an italian friend said to me, you have to help her across. That was i realized, oqe, this was my purpose as as her child, as her daughter. I was going to survive her, and i had to accompany her to the other side and leave her there,. Then return, write and end tis this this.
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