Little Bit - Taylor-Johnson, Heather

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Résumé :
'She was a good person when she wasn't drunk.' Debbie's earliest memory of her mother is that her mother was not there, but any story of neglect always has two sides. When Debbie's daughter, Heather, says she wants to write a book about her upbringing, Debbie begins to string together jagged memories of growing up with Stella, and it's proving more painful than she could've ever imagined. Part memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her mother's and grandmother's lives, where addiction is rife and regret is a constant, and where survival for a woman in a man's world is anything but straightforward. Fiction or nonfiction, this is a book that cannot be categorised and will not be quiet....

Biographie:
Heather Taylor-Johnson is an American-born, multi-form writer, living and working on Kaurna land / Adelaide. Her second novel, Jean Harley Was Here, was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction, while her essays on art and illness have won the Island Nonfiction Prize and been shortlisted for ABR's Calibre Prize. Author of five poetrycollections and a verse novel called Rhymes with Hyenas, she is also the editor of Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetryof Chronic Illness and Pain. After receiving a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide in 2007, she returned in 2018 to be the Writer in Residence at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, where she is now an Adjunct Research Fellow....

Sommaire:
'She was a good person when she wasn't drunk.' Debbie's earliest memory of her mother is that her mother was not there, but any story of neglect always has two sides. When Debbie's daughter, Heather, says she wants to write a book about her upbringing, Debbie begins to string together jagged memories of growing up with Stella, and it's proving more painful than she could've ever imagined. Part memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her mother's and grandmother's lives, where addiction is rife and regret is a constant, and where survival for a woman in a man's world is anything but straightforward. Fiction or nonfiction, this is a book that cannot be categorised and will not be quiet....