Research Catalog

Title

A perfect offering : personal stories of trauma and transformation / edited by Harold Heft, Suzanne Heft and Peter O'Brien.

Publication

Oakville, Ontario, Canada : Mosaic Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heft, Harold, 1964-2015
• Heft, Suzanne, 1967-
• O'Brien, Peter, 1957-

Description

251 pages : illustrations (black & white); 23 cm

Summary

"We live in a traumatic age. Or, perhaps, we should say that trauma appears fundamental to human existence. Over the past few years, especially, we have become more at ease talking about the traumas that impact, affect, and transform us.There is a large and growing literature on trauma all of which demand from readers a measure of emotional and psychological strength. A Perfect Offering brings to readers a variety of deeply personal narratives about traumatic and transformational events.The stories and images collected here include accounts of childhood and adult cancer, surviving terrorist attack, living with the legacy of Residential schools,losing a parent in a plane crash, coping with severe PTSD, living as a blind person in a world built for the sighted, facing the immanent death of a child, finding your way as a trans woman, recording images of war and its victims, surviving sexual assault, and others."--

Uniform Title

Perfect offering (2020)

Alternative Title

Personal stories of trauma and transformation

Subjects

• Essays
• 2000-2099
• Psychic trauma
• Canadian essays > 21st century

Genre/Form

Essays.

Note

• Essays.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: The World I Once Inhabited: Draft One / Harold Heft -- Jack / Andrea Aster -- How to Save Your Own Life / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Unremembered / Jennifer Boyle -- Invisible Tracks / Steve Brearton -- We Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast / Mishi Methven -- Grace Notes / Janet Culliton -- All the Other Kids Died / Vicki Dunleavy -- Walking as I Wake / Janelle A. Girard -- To My 17-Year-Old Self / Lynn Gluckman -- A Long, Bleak Christmas / Trevor Greene -- Still Here / Teva Harrison -- Brain Drain. Brain Trust. / Judith John -- Intertwined: Speaking Our Truths / Jules Arita Koostachin -- The Old Me, The New Me / Alison Langham -- No One Said the D-Word / Valerie Mcdonald -- My Sister Tina, the Strong One / Rocky Morra -- The Chemistry Notebook / Marina Nemat -- Walking Shadows / Peter O'Brien -- "Daddy, what's this?" / Eric Petersiel -- The Tangled Garden / Ed Pien -- Navigating My Darkness / Neena Saloya -- The Miracle of Jacob / Ellen Schwartz -- Poems from Jogging with the Great Ray Charles / Kenneth Sherman -- Waiting to explode: four poems / Charles C. Smith -- Sermon for the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah / Rabbi Yael Splansky -- A Song Dreams Within / Michelle Sylliboy -- Honouring Aunt Catherine, and Beyond / Andrea Warnick -- Children / Paul Watson -- It's Okay To Not Be Okay / Alyssa Wooster -- The Mirror Soliloquy / Banoo Zan.

Call Number

JFE 21-7350

ISBN

• 9781771615129
• 1771615125

LCCN

2020445687

OCLC

1163796386

Title

A perfect offering : personal stories of trauma and transformation / edited by Harold Heft, Suzanne Heft and Peter O'Brien.

Publisher

Oakville, Ontario, Canada : Mosaic Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Heft, Harold, 1964-2015, editor.

Heft, Suzanne, 1967- editor.

O'Brien, Peter, 1957- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Perfect offering. Oakville, Ontario, Canada : Mosaic Press, 2020 1771615133 9781771615136 (OCoLC)1163796479

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7350