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Broken Fiction is a collection of short autofictional stories and poems that both offer solace and depict anguish at the collision of memory, loss, and grief. This kind of story-making negotiates a recognition and acceptance of hard truths without resorting to easy resolution.
The pieces in this volume are playful and fierce. The narrator's willingness to give attention to where love works or goes wrong, or to the moments when suffering cannot be veiled by a positive attitude--even as the comic or absurd overwhelms the tragic and humiliating--takes us to places that inhabit both memory and fiction. Photographs break the fiction and pull the reader into the inevitable forces of time and loss and death.
Broken Fiction invites readers to consider a way through--and sometimes around--illness and love, pain and joy, and gives a droplet of hope in nature's comedy of errors and coincidence.
About the author
Marlene Kadar is a writer who lives in Toronto. She is also Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar in the Department of Humanities, and in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University. She currently studies domestic archival artefacts, including photographs, maps and the documents of immigration and naturalization. Kadar's focus is life writing theory, and colonial and traumatic histories, including multiple and colliding traces in languages. Marlene Kadar is the Founding Editor and Co-editor of the
Life Writing Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and the Literary Editor of
Canadian Woman Studies.
