Author: Various. Edited by Gina Valle. Published by Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC., 1999, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out styled covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 176 pages. ISBN: 9781551922703 GC&C Stock #4666
OUR GRANDMOTHERS, OURSELVES, Reflections of Canadian Women, is a unique collection of creative non-fiction, nineteen Canadian women of various cultural, ethnic and economic backgrounds celebrate the memories of their grandmothers and pay tribute to the enormous role they have played in shaping their identities.
The grandmother-granddaughter relationship is a powerful and enduring bond that is instrumental in shaping the lives of women everywhere. Through short stories, poems, journal entries, letters and more, grandmother - baba, nonna, yiayia, babcia - emerges as a symbol of strength, a stitcher of life. A compelling and moving anthology, Our Grandmothers, Ourselves evokes with great passion the matriarch central to all of our lives. It is a book to be read again and again.
