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What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer - and frees herself from the memories of her violent past. On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforg Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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--- Reviewed by Timothy E. McMahon
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“Despite the sometimes horrifying subject matter, Dominic’s writing skill provides a balm which lifts this memoire into the extraordinary.”
— Dione M. Coumbe
“The Queen of Peace Room is a courageous and spiritual book. It is both searing and lyrical, infused with Dominic’s hope and hard-won trust in herself. It is a passionate search for the means and a safe context that will enable her to tell the truth: the painful and long-denied truth hidden beneath the more public layers of persona. The Queen of Peace Room is an eloquent chronicle of the struggles of Magie Dominic’s journey through a lifetime of memories.”
— Elly Danica, author of Don’t: A Woman’s Word
“In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic puts her guts on every page without being mawkish, with sentiment, but without sentimentality. You’ll love this book.”
— Donald Frost, editor-in-chief, The Village Voice
“It is her refreshing refusal to simply confess and forget...and her determination to construct a future from the painful shards of her past, that make The Queen of Peace Room such an original, instructive, and powerful book.”
— Thomas Haley, Rain Taxi