A New Kind of Wilderness: On Grief, Family, and Continuing Bonds

When someone dies, a family does not grieve as one.

In this reflection on Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's quiet and devastating documentary, I think about what it means to grieve a person and a world at the same time. About the losses that open up between family members in the aftermath of a death. And about what holds when everything else shifts.

This essay continues over on Grief in Translation, my Substack publication for reflective writing on grief, loss, and the human experience.

You can read the full piece here: substack.com/@griefintranslation