Grief in Fiction, Grief in Life, with best-selling author, Emily X.R. Pan
NYT best-selling author Emily X.R. Pan had a problem: she wanted to write about her grandmother’s complex and fascinating life in 1920s Taiwan, but the task seemed too overwhelming. A deeply personal experience of grief gave her new insight into not only the novel-in-progress, but her family’s experience of loss as it was passed down through her family line. The novel became The Astonishing Color of After, a glorious, complex story of love, family, magic, and loss.
Emily joins us to talk about writing grief into your stories, and how writing itself is a way to claim (or reclaim) our human right to feel all of our feelings, even the ones our histories taught us to suppress.
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About our guest:
Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times and National Indie bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After, named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Her recent novel, An Arrow to the Moon, is available now, wherever you get your books. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan
Additional resources:
- Those of us living inside grief know: there is nothing to be fixed. Here’s the thing – telling the truth about your grief is one of the kindest things you can do for yourself. Being allowed to tell the whole truth makes things better, even when they can’t be made right. The Writing Your Grief e-course is a safe space to write about your grief. Learn all about it here.
- Want to talk with Megan directly? Join our patreon community for live monthly Q&A sessions: your questions, answered.
- Want to speak to her privately? Apply for a 1:1 grief consultation here.
- Check out Megan’s best-selling books - It’s OK That You're Not OK and How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed
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