Title:
Thin places : a natural history of healing and home / Kerri ní Dochartaigh.
ISBN:
9781571311955
Personal Author:
Edition:
First US edition.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.
Physical Description:
xvi, 255 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
"First published by Canongate Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021."
Contents:
Prologue -- Part one: Blood and bone. Leamhain bhana -- white moths -- The bridge of sorrows -- Frozen river -- Snow light -- Lost things -- Delicate ghosts -- Frozen bones -- Part two: Feather and stone. Found things -- Echoing grief -- The grove of oaks -- Skull of a shae -- Hollowing, hallowing -- Ein bhana -- white birds.
Summary:
"Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of "two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose" (The Guardian)"-- Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1261880242
Availability:
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