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Persephone's Children
- Author
- Rowan McCandless
- Narrator
- Deanna Anthony
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 18 January 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
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Details
- Author
- Rowan McCandless
- Narrator
- Deanna Anthony
- Duration
- 6 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 January 2022
- ISBN
- 9781666152807
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Memoirs, Literary essays, Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Domestic abuse, Coping with abuse
Synopsis
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.
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