Felt
by Mark Blagrave
ISBN: 9781770867567
Format: Trade Paperback w/ Flaps
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Subjects:
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FIC008000 FICTION / Family Sagas
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FIC080000 FICTION / Multiple Timelines
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FIC019000 FICTION / Literary
Price: $24.95
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Publication Date: August 6, 2024
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Synopsis:
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Felt is a novel about remembrance – what memories we cannot forget and what memories we lose — and the lengths to which we go to recover the forgotten and erase the unforgettable.
Matthew, a Toronto museum curator, returns home to New Brunswick to his mother who is wrestling with the challenges of living alone at age ninety-six. As mother and son face the prognosis of her developing Alzheimer’s disease, the pair begin to unfold a family saga marked by ingenuity, creativity, and resilience. Matthew pieces together the untold story, spanning three generations and two World Wars, of a Norwegian sardine-packer — his grandmother — who founded a handicraft empire in Loyalist territory. At the same time, his mother rearranges her past, her memory spinning and embroidering family history. A heart-rending and powerful story of three generations of a family in a small Maritime town in which shared and contested memories are woven, unraveled, and rewoven.
