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Thin places / Kerri ní Dochartaigh.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1571311955
  • 9781571311955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 941.6/2 23
LOC classification:
  • DA995 .L75 D63 2022
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks DA995 .L75 D63 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001510444

"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.

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