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Son of elsewhere : a memoir in pieces / by Abdelmahmoud, Elamin,author.;
"Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal--for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity. Arriving in Canada at age 12 from Sudan, Elamin's teenage years were spent trying on new ways of being in the world, new ways of relating to his almost universally white peers. His is a story of yearning to belong in a time and place where expectation and assumptions around race, faith, language, and origin make such belonging extremely difficult, but it's also a story of the surprising and unexpected ways in which connection and acceptance can be found. In this extraordinary debut collection, the process of growing--of trying, failing, and trying again to fit in--is cast against the backdrop of the memory of life in a different time, and different place--a Khartoum being bombed by the United States, a nation seeking to define and understand itself against global powers of infinite reach. Taken together, these essays explore how we pick and choose from our experience and environment to help us in the ongoing project of defining who we are--how, for instance, the example of Mo Salah, the profound grief practices of Islam, the nerdy charm of The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, and the long shadow of colonialism can cohere into a new and powerful whole. With the perfect balance of relatable humor and intellectual ferocity, Son of Elsewhere confronts what we know about ourselves, and most important, what we're still learning."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Abdelmahmoud, Elamin.; Authors, Canadian; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Sudanese Canadians;
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Love and laughter in the time of chemotherapy / by Pawagi, Manjusha,1967-author.;
"'April 28, 2014: I won't be coming in today, I have leukemia.' That's the message Manjusha Pawagi, a family court judge in Brampton, Ontario relayed to her office one morning after a routine blood test showed a deadly result. She did not return to work for two and a half years. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. It describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse by roommates; details how much determination it takes to ignore the statistics; and answers the age-old question, what does it take to get a banana Popsicle when you need one?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Pawagi, Manjusha, 1967-; Pawagi, Manjusha, 1967-; Authors, Canadian; Cancer; Judges;
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Sucker punch : essays / by Koul, Scaachi,author.;
'Sucker Punch' is a new memoir in essays about what happens when the life you thought you'd be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Authors, Canadian; East Indians; Minority women; Life change events; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Mordecai Richler / by Vassanji, M. G..;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Richler, Mordecai 1931-2001.; Novelists, Canadian (English); Authors, Canadian (English); Jewish authors;
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Unearthing : a story of tangled love and family secrets / by Maclear, Kyo,1970-author.;
"For readers of Crying in H Mart and Wintering, an unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love. Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Thoughtful in its reflections on race and lineage, unflinching in its insights on grief and loyalty, Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. What gets planted, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions, Unearthing bursts with the very love it seeks to understand."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Novels.; Maclear, Kyo, 1970-; Maclear, Kyo, 1970-; Family secrets.; Parent and adult child.; Authors, Canadian (English); Women authors, Canadian (English);
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The truth about luck : what I learned on my road trip with Grandma / by Reid, Iain,1981-;
In the Truth about luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One bird's choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation--which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story. Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this delightful comic memoir reflects on family connections; how we experience adversity, the passage of time, and aging; and most importantly what it truly means to feel lucky.
Subjects: Reid, Iain, 1981-; Grandparent and child.; Authors, Canadian (English); Canadian wit and humor (English);
© c2013., Anansi,
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Nellie McClung / by Pezzi, Bryan;
Discusses the life of Nellie McClung, a writer, speaker, activist, and politician best known as a member of the "Famous Five" and her work in the women's suffrage movement.
Subjects: McClung, Nellie (Nellie Letitia), 1873-1951; Feminists; Authors, Canadian (English);
© 2008., Weigl,
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Black water : family, legacy, and blood memory / by Robertson, David,1977-author.;
"David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced to learn and speak only English while in day school, unless in secret in the forest with his friends. Robertson's mother, Beverly Eyers, grew up in a small town in Manitoba, a town with no Indigenous families, until Don came to town as a United Church minister and fell in love with her. Robertson's parents made the decision to raise their children, in his words, "separate from his Indigenous identity." He grew up without his father's teachings or knowledge of his life or experiences. All he had left was blood memory, the pieces of who he was engrained in the fabric of his DNA. Pieces that he has spent a lifetime putting together. Black Water is a family memoir of intergenerational trauma and healing, of connection, of story, of how David Robertson's father's life--growing up in Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, then making the journey from Norway House to Winnipeg--informed the author's own life, and might even have saved it. Facing a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water, through the past to create a new future."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Robertson, David, 1977-; Robertson, Don, 1935-2019.; Authors, Canadian (English); Cree;
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In our own Aboriginal voice 2 : a collection of Indigenous authors and artists in Canada / by Calvert, Michael,1968-editor.; Metatawabin, Edmund,1947-writer of foreword.;
"A collection of Indigenous Authors and Artists in Canada. All pieces contain Aboriginal content with themes such as residential schools, personal experiences, Indigenous Identity, prayers, Aboriginal wisdom, hope, etc."--
Subjects: Canadian literature; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nellie McClung / by Gray, Charlotte,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: McClung, Nellie L., 1873-1951; Feminists; Authors, Canadian (English);
© c2008., Penguin Group,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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