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Running From Grief: Catherine Black's Answer in Blessed Nowhere
Running from grief: you grab car keys, pack a bag, drive south. Your son is dead. The choice is dissolve here or run there, and you choose Mexico. You drive until the road ends at a hotel of other broken people. They find you even when you're hiding. Can you outrun grief by crossing borders?
Can you escape grief by moving? Catherine Black calls it a geographic cure. Her answer comes from experience: she bused from Montreal through Mexico in the 90s, trying her own version. The novel Blessed Nowhere follows a young mother asking the same question, and discovers this: even if you want to drop…
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