{"product_id":"there-is-no-blue-paperback","title":"There Is No Blue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Baillie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author's mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author's father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother's. And then, the shocking death of the author's sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incident Report.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Martha Baillie's novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e and just plain generous. That \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the \"disobedient tale\" of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie's variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love.\" - \u003cb\u003eMaud Casey, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Incurable Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life. Baillie subtly interrogates and conveys the devastating mistranslations that take place in childhood, the antagonism and porousness of siblings, and the tragedy of schizophrenia as it unfolds. I couldn't put it down.\" - \u003cb\u003eDr. Lisa Appignanesi, author of \u003ci\u003eMad, Bad and Sad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEveryday Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Exquisite.\" -\u003cb\u003e Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Pronounce Knife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am grateful for this profound meditation on family and loss.\" -\u003cb\u003e Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author's identity by way of her mother's death, her sister's failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Baillie\u003c\/b\u003e lives and works in Toronto. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Incident Report\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is being made into a feature film to be released in 2023. \u003ci\u003eThe Search for Heinrich Schlel\u003c\/i\u003e was an Oprah editors' pick. \u003ci\u003eSister Language\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with her late sister, Christina Baillie, was a 2020 Trillium Award finalist. Martha's non-fiction can be found in \u003ci\u003eBrick: A Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her multimedia project based on \u003ci\u003eThe Search for Heinrich Schlel\u003c\/i\u003e is archived at www.schlogel.ca. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764983300384,"sku":"9781552454749","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/226b2e676bdf01e3c2b6be482348334d.webp?v=1780259470","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/there-is-no-blue-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}