Thin places /
Dochartaigh, Kerri ní, 1983-
Thin places / Kerri ní Dochartaigh. - First U.S. edition. - Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022. - xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cm.
"First published by Canongate Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021" -- Title page verso.
Part one: Blood and bone. Leamhain Bhána = white moths ; The bridge of sorrows ; Frozen river ; Snow light ; Lost things ; Delicate ghosts ; Frozen bones -- Part two: Feather and stone. Found things ; Echoing grief ; The grove of oaks ; Skull of a Shae ; Hollowing, hallowing ; Éin Bhána = white birds.
"Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families who fell between the cracks of sectarian identity, it seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a luminous combination of memoir, history, and writing about the more-than-human world, ní Dochartaigh explores how wonder kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how the land we fight over will always belong to us all." -- Page [4] of cover.
1571311955 9781571311955
2021030636
Dochartaigh, Kerri ní, 1983-
Derry (Northern Ireland)--Biography.
Derry (Northern Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
DA995 .L75 / D63 2022
941.6/2
Thin places / Kerri ní Dochartaigh. - First U.S. edition. - Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022. - xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cm.
"First published by Canongate Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021" -- Title page verso.
Part one: Blood and bone. Leamhain Bhána = white moths ; The bridge of sorrows ; Frozen river ; Snow light ; Lost things ; Delicate ghosts ; Frozen bones -- Part two: Feather and stone. Found things ; Echoing grief ; The grove of oaks ; Skull of a Shae ; Hollowing, hallowing ; Éin Bhána = white birds.
"Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families who fell between the cracks of sectarian identity, it seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a luminous combination of memoir, history, and writing about the more-than-human world, ní Dochartaigh explores how wonder kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how the land we fight over will always belong to us all." -- Page [4] of cover.
1571311955 9781571311955
2021030636
Dochartaigh, Kerri ní, 1983-
Derry (Northern Ireland)--Biography.
Derry (Northern Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
DA995 .L75 / D63 2022
941.6/2