Family History

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ISBN: 9780994137814
Title: Family History
Author: EMENEY JOHANNA

A family’s history turns on its head when a mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. Beyond the shock of discovering the disease, there are questions raised about genetics – all the more difficult when the mother’s an adoptee. For Johanna Emeney, the members of her small, country family were also quickly overwhelmed by the city-based clinical world they found themselves in, and the way it depersonalised the central figure in their lives. In her second collection, Johanna brings her family history to the page – in all its uniqueness and ordinariness – and challenges the medical approach that can forget the person inside the patient.

Format: Trade Paper
Publication date: 05/05/2017
Pages: 74
Available stock: 1