Persephone's Children
Persephone's Children
Marilyn Stanley
, Jude Castillo
, finn mulryan
, Barry Kazimer
, cassandra schiemann
, Natasa Ilic
, Sabrina Phan
, Linda Leitch
, Melissa Kohlman
, Ken Gilmour
, Andrea Pole
, Noelle Schmidt
, sarah campbell
, Paula Adam
, Stephanie Sirois
, Amie Gaudet
, Patricia Johnson
, Tina May
, Deb Philippon
, Meradith Anderson
, Zachery Cooper
, Sonia Adams
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Sara Conway
, Margaret McKay
, Keri Yakel
, Dana Francoeur
, Yolande Thivierge
, Benita Hartwell
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Robert Hykawy
, Kirsten Lyon
, Rhona Brinkman
, Pat Johnston
, Heather Belliveau
, Randi Ann Doll
, MaryAnne MacKeigan
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Christopher Evans
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Lynn Hallson
, Joann Horgan
, Gina Bergman
, Noelle Walsh
, Holly Elisabeth
, John Caleb Grenn
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Bev Bellrose
, LJ Law
, Karen Nordrum
, P. Thompson
, maria blanco
, Chantal Comeau
, zelda dwyer
, Shannon Leclerc
, Andrea Gillespie
, Aditi Saha
, Chris Lantz
, Silvia Demmy
, Fin Macdonald
, Rachel Edmonds
, Ellen Clarke
, Marin Beck
, Suzanne Ciprian
, Heath Mulligan
, Penelope Penner
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Nola Poirier
, Jason Jordan
, Dora Dueck
, Margaret Jones
, Char Krausnick
, Wanda Brine
, Kim Cappellina
, jane luce
, Mary Campbell
, Melissa Poremba
, Natalie Mudri
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Rhona Brinkman
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Hailey Slaviero
, Nadia Cescato
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, diana kirkwood
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After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing.
She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell.
Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency.
It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.
