Persephone's children : a life in fragments / Rowan McCandless
"After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship to rediscover her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell. Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. It is only in the aftermath when she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1459747615
- ISBN: 9781459747616
- Physical Description: 314 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Rare Machines, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) |
Formatted Contents Note: | Blood tithes: a primer -- Binding resolutions -- Articulations of loss -- Today -- Thoughts on keeping a notebook -- A map of the world -- Forest, tree, branch, root -- Therapist -- Revolving doors -- Found objects -- Orange -- Hunger Games: a quiz -- Bait and switch -- Practical magick: a beginner's grimoire -- Vocal lessons: a diagnostic report -- An inventory of wants and needs. |
Awards Note: | Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, shortlist 2022. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | PS 8625 C36 Z46 2021 (Text) | B001697416 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |