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Bezig met laden... This Is Happydoor Camilla Gibb
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Camilla Gibb is certainly not a newcomer in the Canadian Literary scene. This however, has to be by far her most sensitive book. In this, her memoir, she deals with subjects like Mental Illness and Sexual Orientation; but she does it so naturally that we just go on reading without passing judgement. The characters share their feelings and raw emotion and the story is one of love, hurt, and family. Above all, Gibb gives the reader hope when she wonders if "hope is simply the human word for the animal impulse in us to survive." While this gut-wrenching memoir ends with the pronouncement “this is happy”, the story might better have been called “a tiny prick of light,” as for much of Gibb’s life this is all she has to hold on to. Unrelenting struggles with mental health and feelings of being overwhelmed by the cumulative effects of grief and loss, have tainted all her life’s experiences. In the end it is the writing that saves Gibb. She acknowledges the cathartic power of writing to give meaning and perspective to one’s life. Hearing Gibb reading from this book and describing her life today, she does seem happy within the family she has created, so maybe the title is apt after all. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or possibility of the opposite can be what gives an experience its meaning. At its simplest, that is a story." --Camilla Gibb, This Is Happy In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, bestselling author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty. Raw and unflinching, intelligent and humane, This Is Happy asks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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