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Donna Nebenzahl grew up in the 1950s, part of a close-knit Portuguese family in the South American colony of British Guiana. Nurtured by loving grandparents, she spent her childhood never asking why her mother lived a continent away or the reason for her father's early death. Nor did she know why, having been brought up Catholic, she had a Jewish last name. As the colony gained independence and she moved to Canada, Nebenzahl began to explore the difficult issues that her family history raised. The answers emerge gradually in this luminous, compelling memoir that explores the aftermath of loss and the true meaning of home.
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Donna Nebenzahl left British Guiana -- now known as Guyana -- at the age of 10 and grew up in Montreal. She studied at McGill University and has been a reporter and editor at several major Canadian dailies as well as a freelance magazine writer. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at Concordia University, and the author of Womankind: Faces of Change Around the World. She conceived and wrote a documentary film about Elsie Reford, Twice Upon a Garden, as well as the environmental blog Earthbound. She and her husband live in Montreal and Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia.
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