Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way from Ireland to Canada by Brian Brennan Rocky Mountain Books (2011), 296 pages At the age of 23, I seemed to have it all. I had a coveted job in the Irish civil service as a customs and excise regulator, with a gold-plated pension plan, excellent promotion prospects and cradle-to-grave [...]
Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose. McGill Queen’s University Press. Paperback. Release date: 2011-03-01 CA $18.95 | US $18.95 | UK £12.99 Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler’s power was [...]
Snowdrift by Lisa McGonigle. Oolichan Books. January 2011. 288 pages. Lisa McGonigle grew up in North County Dublin, Ireland. She attended Trinity College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen. In 2005, after graduating university, she visited the Kootenay region of British Columbia to spend a winter snowboarding. Emails to her friends back home described a remote [...]
What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer’s disease transformed her mother Midge—and her family—forever. In spare black and white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family’s journey through a harrowing range of [...]
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