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Out Of My Skin
by Tessa McWatt
Novel
216 pages
Trade Paper w/ French Flaps
5.5" X 8.5"
ISBN: 1896332080
$19.99
The Riverbank PressOut Of My Skin
by Tessa McWatt
The search for her biological parents leads Daphne Eyre to her grandfather¹s diaries written in 1960s Britis Guiana. A powerful tale of crisis, race and family secrets. Out Of My Skin explores what binds us to places and people and in its layering of contemporary evetns and personal histories subtly explores the effects and aftershocks of colonialism in the New World.
About Tessa McWatt.
| Reviews: |
| "McWatt"s
style is direct and pointed. Her language is fresh and reads with
an uncommon vibrancy... A rich, complex, and evocative first novel,
Out of My Skin is precisely researched and sensitively written." — Quill & Quire "'What are you anyway, Daphne?' It is the question that haunts almost every page of this ambitious, moving and many-layerd first novel... McWatt's narrative voice is steady, formally unadorned, yet rich in imagery ... (the grandfather's) record of his time in a hellish psychiatric hospital brings to the story an engrossing new voice, and revelations that drive theme and plot to a compelling and structurally deft climax." — The Globe and Mail |
