Dear Current Occupant - Couverture souple

Knight, Chelene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771663901 ISBN 13 : 9781771663908

Editeur : Book*hug, 2018

Synopsis

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CHELENE KNIGHT is the author of the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award. Her essays have appeared in many literary journals and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and The Walrus. Her novel, Junie, was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and was also a finalist for both the City of Vancouver Book Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. Chelene is the founder of her own literary studio, Breathing Space Creative. Chelene works as a literary agent with the Transatlantic Agency. Born and raised in Vancouver, she now lives in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book*hug
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771663901
• ISBN 13: 9781771663908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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