Seesaw

Carmel Doohan

ISBN 10: 1909585424 / ISBN 13: 9781909585423

Published by CB Editions, 2021

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # GB-9781909585423

Synopsis:

Boats are sinking in the Mediterranean, and Siobhan begins work at a night shelter for asylum seekers. At the same time she is coping with the fallout of her relationships with an identical twin sister, an ex-girlfriend, and a boyfriend with whom she can no longer have sex. As political conflicts escalate she begins to recognise the destructive, zero-sum dynamic she learned in childhood and is forced to acknowledge her own violent logic of self-preservation. Drawing on cinematic montage, the narrative renders fragments of memory, experience and observation in a pattern of shifting analogies that work to illuminate the possibility of a less binary world.

About the Author: Carmel Doohan was born in Birmingham. She studied Fine Art in Nottingham and has lived in Bristol, London and Glasgow. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow and teaches creative nonfiction at Bishopsgate Institute. She lives in a village on the edge of the Peak District.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Seesaw
Publisher: CB Editions
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: PAP
Condition: New