Shadow Child An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss In this perceptive profoundly moving meditation on love and loss and the often poignant connection between the two Beth Powning shares the lessons that time and nature have taught her Like many young
In this perceptive, profoundly moving meditation on love and loss and the often poignant connection between the two Beth Powning shares the lessons that time and nature have taught her.Like many young women with career ambitions in the redefining 1960s, Beth Powning struggles with the decision as to whether, and when, she should start a family, although eventually heIn this perceptive, profoundly moving meditation on love and loss and the often poignant connection between the two Beth Powning shares the lessons that time and nature have taught her.Like many young women with career ambitions in the redefining 1960s, Beth Powning struggles with the decision as to whether, and when, she should start a family, although eventually her ambivalence about motherhood yields to a dream of a baby At the age of twenty four she becomes pregnant, and her dream becomes reality Then, late into a cold February night, eleven days past her due date, under induced labor, Beth delivers a stillborn son.Several years later, to overwhelming joy, Beth gives birth to Jacob, but the growth of her second son is soon shadowed by that of Beth s other, first child, who has emerged from the darkness of memory So it is that she begins to come to terms with the conditions of life that hone and humble each of us with birth and death, with joy and pain, with losses and love and the relentless passage of time in this beautifully wrought exploration of selfhood, womanhood, and motherhood.
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Free Read [Business Book] Ä Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss - by Beth Powning ✓
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Beth Powning was born in Hampton, Connecticut She attended E.O Smith High School, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in creative writing Powning moved to New Brunswick, Canada in 1970.Powning s work has been widely published in books, anthologies, and magazines She is known for her lyrical, powerful writing and the profound emotional honesty of her work Her latest novel, A Measure of Light , was released by Knopf Canada March 10, 2015 It was a Globe and Mail Bestseller, a Globe and Mail Best Book, was long listed for the Dublin International LIiterary Award, and was the winner of the N.B.Book Award for Fiction In the USA, A Measure of Light will be a Sam s Club Best Book for March, 2018 Beth Powning s novel, The Sea Captain s Wife was short listed for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, in Canada and was a Barnes and Noble Discover Award Book, in the USA The novel has been long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award It is being translated into French by Editions Perce Neige, with distribution in Canada and France.Powning also recently won Canada s Lieutenant Governor s Award for High Achievement in English Language Literary Arts and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New Brunswick.