Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Rare MachinesISBN-13:9781459747616ISBN-10:1459747615UPC:9781459747616Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Abuse, EssaysBook Topic:Domestic Partner AbuseSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCK1Z1MAWT
Finalist for 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction - Co-Winner of 2022 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers 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. 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.
It is only in the aftermath that 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.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers 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. 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.
It is only in the aftermath that 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.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Rare MachinesISBN-13:9781459747616ISBN-10:1459747615UPC:9781459747616Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Abuse, EssaysBook Topic:Domestic Partner AbuseSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCK1Z1MAWT
Rowan McCandless is an award-winning author of fiction and creative non-fiction, and serves as the creative non-fiction editor for The Fiddlehead. She has been longlisted for the Journey Prize, won the Constance Rooke Creative Non-fiction Prize, and received gold for One of a Kind Storytelling at the National Magazine Awards. Rowan lives in Winnipeg.
Publisher: Rare Machines
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