Part II of Grief Work extends the exploration of trauma, grief, and narrative begun in Part I by foregrounding memory’s fragmentation and the recursive temporality of trauma. Centred on the narrator’s psychiatric hospitalisation in 1987, the section interweaves autobiographical testimony with hallucinatory dialogues with her deceased sister Mary, and sustained engagements with Van Gogh, Woolf, Nabokov, and trauma theorists. Through detailed depictions of childhood hunger, psychiatric encounters, and sexual violence, the narrative demonstrates how traumatic experience resists integration into coherent life stories. The text highlights the limitations of psychoanalytic and narrative models that demand linearity and closure, arguing instead for a model of “negotiated truth,” an iterative process of narration that holds irresolution. Can storytelling heal, or is it merely the mask we wear while enduring the unbearable? By juxtaposing fragments of lived experience with critical reflection, Part II interrogates both the epistemological and therapeutic potential of expressive writing, contributing to debates in trauma studies on complicated grief, narrative failure, and the ethics of representing trauma.