A Perfect Offering: Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771615125 ISBN 13: 9781771615129

Publisher: Mosaic Press, 2021

Synopsis

A Perfect Offering illuminates the dark recesses of trauma - the sudden loss of a child, surviving sexual assault, the legacy of residential schools, enduring war and imprisonment, living with chronic illness - and shines with the imperfect grace and resilience of the human heart. Some of the 31 stories will shock and disorient. Others will inspire and comfort. All are illustrative and compelling. The contributors include Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans activist and a regular contributor to The New York Times; Captain Trevor Greene, who was attacked by an axe-wielding teenager near Kandahar; author of Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat; Jules Arita Koostachin, band member of Attawapiskat First Nation; and Paul Watson, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. For others, this will be their first publication.

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About the Author

Peter O'Brien has written or edited seven books, including Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian (Harper & Row) and Cleopatra at the Breakfast Table: Why I Studied Latin With My Teenager and How I Discovered the Daughterland (Quattro). Born in New York, he attended Notre Dame, McGill, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has published widely on literature, art, and family life, and exhibits and publishes his artwork internationally. Harold Heft was the author of The Shape of This Dying: Remembering Alexander Bercovitch (Mosaic) and Build a Better Book Club (Macmillan Canada, written with Peter O'Brien). He published articles and reviews in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, and Tablet, and worked as a senior communications strategist for many of Canada's leading healthcare organizations. At age 51, after a diagnosis of an inoperable brain tumor, Harold died on 23 July 2015. Suzanne Heft grew up in the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe, with her head bent over a book, riveted by stories of redemption and transformation. After graduating from the University of Toronto, she became a passionate advocate for worthy charitable causes as a fundraising executive. She is the mother of two teenage sons and the wife of Harold Heft.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosaic Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771615125
• ISBN 13: 9781771615129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 329
• Editor: Harold Heft, Suzanne Heft, Peter O'Brien