Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother - Couverture souple

Uppal, Priscila

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771022744 ISBN 13 : 9781771022743

Editeur : Dundurn Group Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

2013 Governor General's Literary Award -- Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust -- Shortlisted, Non-Fiction

Projection is the story of this mother-daughter meeting in Brazil, of how two strangers, connected by little more than blood, spent ten days together trying to build a relationship.

In 1977, Priscila Uppal's father drank contaminated water in Antigua and within 48 hours was a quadriplegic. Priscila was two years old. Five years later, her mother, Theresa, drained the family's bank accounts and disappeared to Brazil. After two attempts to abduct her children, Theresa had no further contact with the family.

In 2002, Priscila happened on her mother's website, which featured a childhood photograph of Priscila and her brother. A few weeks later, Priscila summoned the nerve to contact the woman who'd abandoned her.

The emotional reunion was alternately shocking, hopeful, humorous, and devastating, as Priscila came to realize that not only did she not love her mother, she didn't even like her.

Projection is a visceral, precisely written, brutally honest memoir that takes a probing look at a very unusual mother-daughter relationship, yet offers genuine comfort to all facing their own turbulent and unresolved familial relationships.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Priscila Uppal was an internationally acclaimed poet, prose writer, and playwright. A York University professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she was the author of Ontological Necessities and Cover Before Striking. Her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and a Governor General's Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771022744
• ISBN 13: 9781771022743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible