Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2022
Verlag
NeWest PressSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/15/2 cm
Gewicht
417 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-77439-057-3
In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families' pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.
This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of families survive in a new country: one as homesteaders, the other as working-class Edmontonians. Working within the gaps in history-including the unsolved murder in Ukraine of her great uncle-Kostash uses her remarkable acumen as writer and researcher to interrogate the idea of straightforward and singular-voiced pasts and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from.
Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle.
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