Out of My Skin



by Tessa McWatt

ISBN 9781896332086 | 5.5" x 8.5" | TPB with French Flaps | $22.95
Categories:Fiction - Literary

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Synopsis

The search for her biological parents leads Daphne Eyre to her grandfather's diaries written in 1960s British 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.
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
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