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Finalist for 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction • Co-Winner of 2022 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing.
She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell.
Persephone's Children 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.
It 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.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Contents
Blood Tithes: A Primer
Binding Resolutions
Articulations of Loss
Trialogue: A Play on Words
Today
Thoughts on Keeping a Notebook
A Map of the World
Forest, Tree, Branch, Root
Therapist
Revolving Doors
Found Objects
Orange
Hunger Games: A Quiz
Bait and Switch
Practical Magick: A Beginner's Grimoire
Vocal Lessons: A Diagnostic Report
An Inventory of Wants and Needs
Acknowledgements
References and Works Cited
Credits
About the Author
