{"product_id":"reinventing-the-past-monique-layton-9781038322531","title":"Reinventing the Past: Memories of a Dry Land","description":"Armed with nothing but the flimsy evidence of a Bata shoebox filled with her mother's old photographs, Monique Layton reconstructs her colonial childhood in Morocco in the 1930s. Nothing is as it seems as the author guides her readers through a city surrounded by ramparts two steps away from the Sahara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReinventing the Past is a memoir with two authors: the child who does her best to construct clues to her fleeting memories and the old woman who provides a historical context to the stories of her youth. The memoir covers colonialism in Morocco, sex education, native customs, and children's interactions, and throws into question our notions of memory and the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterpretation of reality is, at its heart, a reconstitution. Layton uses that lens to reconsider her childhood and to recreate the past when she is the only witness of it left, save the so-called evidence of photographs and inert objects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monique Layton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1038322537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038322531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Monique Layton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640849092863,"sku":"9781038322531","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59474be8-d6f6-4ad5-8a4f-2494f711deea.jpg?v=1740670661","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reinventing-the-past-monique-layton-9781038322531","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}