A Perfect Offering

Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation

Harold Heft, Peter O'Brien, Suzanne Heft (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

329 Seiten

2021
Mosaic Press (Verlag)
978-1-77161-512-9 (ISBN)

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A Perfect Offering illuminates the dark recesses of trauma—the sudden loss of a child, surviving sexual assault, the legacy of residential schools, enduring war and imprisonment, living with chronic illness—and shines with the imperfect grace and resilience of the human heart. Some of the 31 stories will shock and disorient. Others will inspire and comfort. All are illustrative and compelling. The contributors include Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans activist and a regular contributor to The New York Times; Captain Trevor Greene, who was attacked by an axe-wielding teenager near Kandahar; author of Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat; Jules Arita Koostachin, band member of Attawapiskat First Nation; and Paul Watson, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. For others, this will be their first publication.

"This emotionally honest book is simultaneously brutal, beautiful and deeply inspiring." —Jennifer Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
"This book will break your heart right open." —Mike Downie, Co-Founder of The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund
"These shared stories resonate with deep feeling, wisdom and courage." —Award-wining novelist Camilla Gibb

Harold Heft was the author of three books, was published widely in The Globe & Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, tablet. The Jewish Daily Forward; held a Ph.D. in Lierarture form the University of Western Ontatrio, worked as a senior strategist and marketing communications executive. Suzanne Heft was born in Nova Scotia to an American father and Iraqi mother, navigated a traumatic childhood that unfolded in the U.S., the Middle East, and England, studied English Literature at the University of Toronto, has worked in public relations and now works at Ryerson Unjversity. She is the mother of two teenage sons. Peter OBrien has written or edited five books, including.Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian ( Harper & Collins), Build a Better Book Club (Macmillan Canada). He was born in New York, holds a BA from Notre Dame University, an MA from McGill and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has published numerous articles and reviews in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette. He now runs his own communication firm in Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2020
Verlagsort	Ontario
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-77161-512-5 / 1771615125
ISBN-13	978-1-77161-512-9 / 9781771615129
Zustand	Neuware