{"product_id":"persephones-children-rowan-mccandless-9781459747616","title":"Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments","description":"\u003ci\u003eFinalist for 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction - Co-Winner of 2022 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersephone's Children\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Rowan McCandless's odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA RARE MACHINES BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowan McCandless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459747615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459747616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Rowan McCandless","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989215052031,"sku":"9781459747616","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_860d9b18-5bb5-4d16-94f0-2a61eed6637f.jpg?v=1683298234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/persephones-children-rowan-mccandless-9781459747616","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}