Novel
A Joy To Be Hidden
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Published
- March 2019
- Pages
- 310
- Price
- $21.95
- ISBN
- 9781773900087
- Language
- English
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March 2019
Alice Stein, a young graduate student living in a vivid and chaotic late-90s East Village, loses her father and grandmother in a single year. In the process of cleaning out her grandmother's Brooklyn apartment, she begins to unlock a family secret. Accompanied by her precocious downstairs neighbour, a twelve-year-old girl named Persephone, she sets out on a quest to understand her family and herself. In the process, she will discover lost children and buried love affairs, histories she wants to believe and people she can't trust, a village in Hungary and an artist's loft in Harlem.
A coming-of-age story about hidden pasts and the legacy of trauma and displacement, A Joy To Be Hidden is told with humour and insight. We can never quite forget the title quote by D. W. Winnicott: “It is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found." We soon discover that it applies to everyone.
SHORTLISTED for the 2019 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction SHORTLISTED for the J.I. Segal Award for the Best Quebec Book
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