Sarah de Leeuw

Where It Hurts

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Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards--Non-Fiction! Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize at the 2018 BC Book Prizes! Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Leeuw's creative non-fiction captures strange inconsistencies and aberrations of human behaviour, urging us to be observant and aware. The essays are wide in scope and expose what--and who--goes missing. With staggering insight, Sarah de Leeuw reflects on missing geographies and people, including missing women, both those she has known and those whom she will never get to know. The writing is courageously focused, juxtaposing places and things that can be touched and known--emotionally, physically, psychologically--with what has become intangible, unnoticed, or actively ignored. Throughout these essays, de Leeuw's imagistic memories are layered with meaning, providing a survival guide for the present, including a survival that comes with the profound responsibility to bear witness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NeWest Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9781926455846
• ISBN-10: 1926455843
• Artikelnr.: 47494648

Autorenporträt

Sarah de Leeuw is a human geographer, award-winning poet and creative non-fiction writer. De Leeuw grew up on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, then lived in Terrace, BC. She has worked as a tugboat driver, women's centre coordinator, logging camp cook, and as a journalist and correspondent for Connections Magazine and CBC Radio's BC Almanac. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and divides her time between Prince George and Kelowna.