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THE ELEMENTS
A Memoir of Grief, Loss and Transformation
A memoir of grief, loss and transformation, investigating desire and the culture of death.
What does it mean to be widowed when you're 35? And how is it possible to untether and move forwards after great loss, while still honouring the past and making peace with it?
In THE ELEMENTS, Kat Lister explores and documents four elemental stages, or seasons, in her first year of grief: from the raw abstraction of early mourning, into a period of awkward transition and onwards to the promise of transformation, rejuvenation and renewal.
THE ELEMENTS is a report from the depths of grief, written in the first year of widowhood with a clear aim: to better understand dispossession, to illustrate what dissociation feels like, and to explore how bereavement can inhabit and subvert you both physically and psychically. But it also opens out the investigation to talk to experts in the field, and meditates on the writings of fellow authors, and takes the reader on a journey from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, to the world's leading trauma centre in New York and even a taboo-busting funeral home in Los Angeles.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kat Lister is a writer and editor based in London and has worked in magazine media for over a decade. Beginning her career as a music journalist she spent her early twenties on the news desk at the legendary music newspaper, New Musical Express (NME) where she met her husband, Pat Long. She went on to specialise in women's issues, writing widely for publications including Vice, Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Refinery29, where she was appointed Contributing Editor. In 2017, she joined the editorial team at women's website The Pool, quickly becoming a freelance features and news editor until its demise in 2019. Since her husband's death in 2018, she has focused on investigating her experience of grief, writing widely-circulated essays and features for The Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday Times Style and The Pool.
The Pool quickly becoming a freelance features and news editor until its demise in 2019. Since her husband's death in 2018, she has focused on investigating her experience of grief, writing widely circulated essays and features for The Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday Times Style and The Pool.
In THE ELEMENTS, Kat Lister explores and documents four elemental stages, or seasons, in her first year of grief: from the raw abstraction of early mourning, into a period of awkward transition and onwards to the promise of transformation, rejuvenation and renewal.
THE ELEMENTS is a report from the depths of grief, written in the first year of widowhood with a clear aim: to better understand dispossession, to illustrate what dissociation feels like, and to explore how bereavement can inhabit and subvert you both physically and psychically. But it also opens out the investigation to talk to experts in the field, and meditates on the writings of fellow authors, and takes the reader on a journey from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, to the world's leading trauma centre in New York and even a taboo-busting funeral home in Los Angeles.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kat Lister is a writer and editor based in London and has worked in magazine media for over a decade. Beginning her career as a music journalist she spent her early twenties on the news desk at the legendary music newspaper, New Musical Express (NME) where she met her husband, Pat Long. She went on to specialise in women's issues, writing widely for publications including Vice, Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Refinery29, where she was appointed Contributing Editor. In 2017, she joined the editorial team at women's website The Pool, quickly becoming a freelance features and news editor until its demise in 2019. Since her husband's death in 2018, she has focused on investigating her experience of grief, writing widely-circulated essays and features for The Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday Times Style and The Pool.
The Pool quickly becoming a freelance features and news editor until its demise in 2019. Since her husband's death in 2018, she has focused on investigating her experience of grief, writing widely circulated essays and features for The Sunday Times Magazine, Sunday Times Style and The Pool.
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Published 2021-09-01 by Icon Books |