How do we confront our many pasts? And how do those confrontations lead us through grief, movement, humour, joy, and even transcendence? These are some of the questions at the heart of this heady conversation with memoirists of various forms. Of Cody Caetano’s Half-Bads in White Regalia, Katherena Vermette says, “No one gets off easy, but everyone is drawn with unflinching love and respect.” The same can be said of Stuart Ross’s The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, in which Ross explores how we grieve the people one loves—and face the accumulation of loss. Putsata Reang, meanwhile, explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty in her family in Ma and Me. We’re beginning to understand the power of story to heal: nowhere is this clearer than these works reckoning with the past. Moderated by Jael Richardson.