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[2015], Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: 616.550 U79b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, NL, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. After three months of medical testing, Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a rare genetic condition where pigment fails to form in the skin, hair and eyes. She is visually impaired and faces a lifetime indoors. A journalist and folklore scholar accustomed to processing the world through other people's stories, Emily is drawn to understanding her child's difference by researching the cultural beliefs associated with albinism worldwide.
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-- Lives of mothers and daughtersc2001., McClelland & Stewart Call No: Bio M968L Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2021]., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd Call No: Bio O63p Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A memoir that promises to ignite debate about the legacy of mothers on their daughters. Growing up in London, Ontario, Michelle's relationship with her mother was defined by absence - her mother, Jacqueline, had an high-ranking career in finance and banking, living in Toronto or Ottawa during the work week, returning on the weekend to pick up the familial role much to her daughter's (and husband's) increasing resentment. Jacqueline was fueled by a deeply ambitious drive and a determination to avoid what she saw as the limited and unfulfilling life of her own homemaker mother, who was often hospitalized with bouts of depression. In an attempt to bridge the gap with Michelle, Jacqueline would plan trips for the two of them, which usually had the effect of skyrocketing the tensions instead of drawing the two of them closer. These trips continue today, along with an ongoing string of daily text messages that carry as much subtext as they do text. These trips and texts provide the jumping off point for Michelle Orange to examine her life and how mothers and daughter relate, what one generation passes on to the next, and how deeply young women struggle for identity defined in opposition to the women they are closest to.
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2017., General, House of Anansi Press Inc. Call No: Bio V945w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn't quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan - a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain-and-vodka-soaked narcissist whose search for glamour and fulfillment through the acquisition and collection of beautiful things ultimately proved hollow. A tale of growing up in 1970s and 1980s Toronto in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jewish family that valued panache over pragmatism and making a design statement over substance, von Hahn's recollections of her dramatic and domineering mother are exemplified by the objects she held most dear: from a strand of prized pearls, to a Venetian mirror worthy of the palace of Versailles, to the silver satin sofas that were the epitome of her signature style. She also describes the misunderstandings and sometimes hurt and pain that come with being raised by her stunning, larger-than-life mother who in many ways embodied the flash-and-glam, high-flying, wealth-accumulating generation that gave birth to our modern-day material culture. Alternating between satire and sadness, von Hahn reconstructs the past through a series of exquisitely impressionistic memories, ultimately questioning the value of the things we hold dear and - after her complicated, yet impossible-to-forget mother is gone - what exactly remains. Karen Von Hahn is a columnist with the Toronto Star."--Provided by publisher.
