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Persephone's children : a life in fragments / Rowan McCandless.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.M32246 Z46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCandless, Rowan, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCandless, Rowan, 1958-.
- McCandless, Rowan.
- Abused women--Canada--Biography.
- Abused women.
- Multiracial women--Canada--Biography.
- Multiracial women.
- Women authors, Canadian--21st century--Biography.
- Women authors, Canadian.
- Women, Black--Canada--Biography.
- Women, Black.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Rare Machines, an imprint of Dundurn Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Blood Tithes: A Primer
- Binding Resolutions
- Articulations of Loss
- Trialogue: A Play on Words
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references: pages 309-311.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McCandless, Rowan, 1958- Persephone's children.
- ISBN:
- 9781459747616
- 1459747615
- OCLC:
- 1201541484
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