2020 Reading Challenge - Day 217
August 6, 2020
Book 59 - Dear Current Occupant
Chelene Knight
Part 1 - pages 1-39
Chelene Knight
Part 1 - pages 1-39
I'm reading this books as part of a book group and when I got it, I was a bit surprised at the slimness of the volume. But... I'm game for a short book! This book won the Vancouver Book award and has been written up in a number of newspaper articles. T'he author uses a variety of literary forms (poetry, letters, narrative) to reconstruct a sense of belonging after a very un-belonging childhood.
This first section of the book is written as short letters to the current occupants of the various accommodations that the author lived in during her childhood (around 20). The overall sense is of a very disjointed, fragmented life, with a mother who was a drug addict and sex-trade worker.
I can't say that I really connected to this section, having lived in one place my entire childhood.
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