In a recent interview with The Next Chapter’s Antonio Michael Downing, GRSJ’s Minelle Mahtani spoke about her best-selling debut memoir, May It Have a Happy Ending, which is about the anticipatory grief of caring for a dying loved one and the gravity of their loss when they do pass.
“'Grief made me a better radio host': embracing hard questions in Minelle Mahtani's memoir”
Mahtani’s shares how her role as a radio host and interviewer gave her a voice and the opportunity for deeply intimate conversations with strangers, while at the same time she struggled to have tough conversations with close friends and family about her mother’s cancer diagnosis and her own grief.
…what would happen if we started having the courage to ask different questions, not only of strangers … But what about with those we have the most cherished relationships? What could possibly open up in terms of like a field of green and expansive opportunity for a blossoming of a different kind of radical intimacy? – Minelle Mahtani
