Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate. This item is unavailable.Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate

Filled with scores of family and found photos and journal entries, this book will appeal to family historians, scrapbookers, diarists, and anyone interested in the power of family and memory. A book that contemplates families, especially the relationship between mother and daughter, Half in Shade is an ideal Mother's Day gift. The book will appeal to people diagnosed with cancer and those who know someone affected by cancer. Speculating on the unknown in each photograph, this book actively engages the reader in a balancing act of fact and fiction, inspiring them to do the same with their own photo albums. Course adoption: creative nonfiction, autobiography/memoir, health journalism.

Judith Kitchen is the author of several works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has won the Lillian Fairchild Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the S. Mariella Gable Award. She has served as judge for the AWP Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize in poetry, the Oregon Book Award, and the Bush Foundation fellowships, among others. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Kitchen lives in Port Townsend, Washington, and serves on the faculty and as codirector of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.