{"product_id":"persephones-children-a-life-in-fragments-paperback","title":"Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRowan McCandless\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction - Co-Winner of 2022 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersephone's Children\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA RARE MACHINES BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRowan McCandless is an award-winning author of fiction and creative non-fiction, and serves as the creative non-fiction editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768082858272,"sku":"9781459747616","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d297dc9180dc647b375a2a11eb476cc8.webp?v=1780324288","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/persephones-children-a-life-in-fragments-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}