The low road
a Scottish family memoir
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Publication
2001 - Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan
Language
English
Word Count
64,750 words, Guess
Page Count
259 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3938460M
- Internet Archivelowroadscottishf0000mine
- Internet Archivelowroadscottishf0000mine_p9u3
- ISBN-100870135929
- ISBN-139780870135927
and 5 more
- Goodreads4721998
- LibraryThing1382873
- Library of Congress Control Number2001003694
- OCLC Control Number47208417
- Better World Books9780870135927
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS3563.I4647 Z465 2001
and 1 more
- LCCPS3563.I4647Z465
Description
""This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life." writes Valerie Miner in this account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty-stricken 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 navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach the place of acceptance and understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
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