Surfacing

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Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother's disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a 'mither who was kind'. For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological sites and mines her own memories - of her grandparents, of youthful travels - to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies, and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
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Publication Date:
01/07/2020
Illustrations Note:
10 B&W photos
Authors:
Jamie, Kathleen
Year Published:
2020
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781908745828
Number of Pages:
240
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Sort of Books
Publication Date:
01/07/2020
SKU:
9781908745828

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