portada Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets (en Inglés)

Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Clair Wills

Editorial

Picador

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21x13.7x2.5 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250371928

Categorías

Irlanda
Sociología de la familia y las relaciones sociales
Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets (en Inglés)

Clair Wills (Autor) · Picador · Tapa Blanda

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Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story."Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark recesses of her family's history--and the history of Ireland. Missing Persons is a stunningly eloquent exploration of how truth-telling, secret-keeping, and outright lies are part of all family stories--indeed, the stories that unite all communities--and how truths, secrets and lies can both protect and destroy us." --Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a mother-and-baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an institution not far from the farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers. Yet Clair was never told of Mary's existence. How could a whole family--a whole country--abandon unmarried mothers and their children, erasing them from history? To discover the missing pieces of her family's story, Clair searched across archives and nations, in a journey that would take her from the 1890s to the 1980s, from West Cork to rural Suffolk and Massachusetts, from absent fathers to the grief of a lost child. There are some experiences that do not want to be remembered. What began as an effort to piece together the facts became an act of decoding the most unreliable of evidence--stories, secrets, silences. The result is a moving, exquisitely told account of the secrets families keep, and the violence carried out in their name.