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The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir

Valerie Miner

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Description:"This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life, " writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty-striken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity.“The Low Road is as entertaining as it is insightful. ValerieMiner is an obviously brilliant author writing about the story she has carried with her for a lifetime. And it’s a good story.”The Bloomsbury Review“Truly, the story belongs to Miner’s mother, Mary, the repressedlink between the lost homeland and the new world. Miner fills in this history with aching detail. Mary changed her name to Pat, married and had children. She worked in a coffee shop. At 50, her husband left her. At 77, she retired,eventually succumbing to Alzheimer’. Standing in her mother’s empty home, Miner remembers her last days, divorced, alone and living in astudio apartment. ‘All this after eighty years? It could have been worse,is my mother’s reply.’ Coming at the end of the book, it’s a lovingly rendered chapter, typical of the rich family portrait Miner has created.”Washington PostWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir. To get started finding The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life, " writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty-striken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity.“The Low Road is as entertaining as it is insightful. ValerieMiner is an obviously brilliant author writing about the story she has carried with her for a lifetime. And it’s a good story.”The Bloomsbury Review“Truly, the story belongs to Miner’s mother, Mary, the repressedlink between the lost homeland and the new world. Miner fills in this history with aching detail. Mary changed her name to Pat, married and had children. She worked in a coffee shop. At 50, her husband left her. At 77, she retired,eventually succumbing to Alzheimer’. Standing in her mother’s empty home, Miner remembers her last days, divorced, alone and living in astudio apartment. ‘All this after eighty years? It could have been worse,is my mother’s reply.’ Coming at the end of the book, it’s a lovingly rendered chapter, typical of the rich family portrait Miner has created.”Washington PostWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir. To get started finding The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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