Carrie Goodall
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Jesse Andrews:
Not a question? But I wanted to say that I love how true the portrayal of grief was for Greg, Earl, Rachel's mom, and Greg's mom. Sometimes it is "just a stupid, meaningless loss," a loss, loss, loss. Yes, it is. Seeing it written down like that really resonated and was oddly comforting. Thank you for being willing to admit that sometimes there isn't meaning in the loss.
Jesse Andrews
you are welcome and i'm grateful to you for telling me you connected with that part of the book in particular—we have this great fear of not being able to mine meaning from experience, and i wanted to address that too. (and sometimes we do find meaning in terrible things—just not meaning that is expressible in a single sentence, or maybe even in language at all—and that's also frightening, but less so if we can admit it to each other.)
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Jesse Andrews:
What was the biggest challenge in converting your book into a movie? I loved Me and Earl and can't wait for The Haters. Thank you!
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