There is no blue / Martha Baillie.
"Martha 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. Three 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 Baillie's father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the center of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother's. And then, third, shockingly, 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, just before the book the sisters co-authored is due to come out. In 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 The Incident Report."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781552454749
- Physical Description: 190 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Coach House Books, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Baillie, Martha, 1960- > Family Authors, Canadian (English) > Biography. Bereavement. Grief. Parents > Death > Psychological aspects. Sisters > Death > Psychological aspects. |
Genre: | Essays. Autobiographies. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fernie Heritage Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Fernie Heritage Library | 814.6 BAI (Text) | 35136000651639 | Adult Non Fic | Volume hold | Available | - |