Honey from the Ground

A Memoir

Soren Tae Smith

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Melbourne University Pres
01 October 2025

Prose: non-fiction; Society & Social Sciences; Psychology; Health & Self-Help

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There is no way to ‘come to terms’ with parental grief: it is like being killed while still standing, being born in mid-life and having to learn to exist again, becoming a hybrid creature, partly buried.

For Soren Tae Smith, the dead have always been mentors. Their deeds have ended but their influence continues. But what does it mean when your child, who had just begun to talk with you about Kafka and Camus, is suddenly closer to them than to you? What does it mean to be able to write or work when a young person didn’t get the chance?

Written as a means of survival, Honey from the Ground upends genre and resists explanation. It follows the rhythms of lived time and memory, accepting illness and limitation. Through glimpses of a personal past, it rummages for what can be saved and known even in the absence of answers.

Those who die before us are not left behind but are a step ahead. It is for us to navigate the path toward them.

By: Soren Tae Smith
Imprint: Melbourne University Pres
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
Weight: 143g
ISBN: 9780522881813
ISBN 10: 0522881815
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active