Tiny Lights for Travellers - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Naomi K. LewisSeries:WayfarerTheme:Cultural Region/Canadian, Cultural Region/Western EuropePublish date:11/17/2020Pages:296
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Alberta PressISBN-13:9781772124484ISBN-10:1772124486UPC:9781772124484Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Canadian, EuropeBook Topic:WesternSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.431Product ID:SCTE49J5X6
Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me? When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. Travelling alone from Amsterdam to Lyon, she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generation Jewish Canadian. With vulnerability, humour, and wisdom, Lewis's memoir asks tough questions about her identity as a secular Jew, the accuracy of family stories, and the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Alberta PressISBN-13:9781772124484ISBN-10:1772124486UPC:9781772124484Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, TravelBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Canadian, EuropeBook Topic:WesternSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.431Product ID:SCTE49J5X6
Naomi K. Lewis is the author of the novel Cricket in a Fist, the short story collection I Know Who You Remind Me Of, and the co-editor of the anthology Shy. Her memoir, Tiny Lights for Travellers, was a finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her journalism has been shortlisted for provincial and national magazine awards, and she has served as writer in residence at the University of New Brunswick and the Calgary Public Library. She lives in Calgary and sometimes Kelowna.
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