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PublisherDemeter Press

ISBN-10177258424X

ISBN-139781772584240

eBay Product ID (ePID)20057271296

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Book TitleDon't Tell: Family Secrets

Number of Pages376 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicSociology / General, Essays

GenreSocial Science, Literary Collections

AuthorArleen Paré

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews" Don't Tell not only spills the tea about family secrets; it also delves into the conditions of their endurance in old letters and faded photos, and their revelations via DNA testing, slips of the tongue, and uncomfortable silences. This collection reminds us of the lengths families go to maintain silence, safety, or respectability, and of the courage of those who reach into that dark rain barrel of the past and draw up the truth, dripping and wriggling, into the present day. If you've ever discovered - or been - the family secret, Don't Tell is the book for you." --Tanis MacDonald, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, and author of seven books, including Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female "A secret becomes an ugly starved thing...writes one of the authors in this compelling anthology. Co-edited by sisters Arleen Pare and Donna McCart Sharkey, tales of sadness, loss, murder, grief--even humour--emerge through poetry and story. This brave collection redefines what secrets we believe should be disclosed. With each quest, the revelation of a once toxic family secret creates a path to closure and understanding, or to continued searching. Readers may feel uneasy about the skeletons cloistered in their own lives; but, not telling is no longer an option." --Barbara Herringer, Ph.D. Dean, School of Health and Human Services (ret'd), Camosun College "Family secrets breed silence and shame, for which language alone is the antidote. The stories and poems in this volume transmute shame into understanding and empathy. They will offer insight, comfort, confidence, and purpose to anyone whose family history has been scarred by mental illness, adoption, suicide, abandonment, crises of identity, or intergenerational trauma." --Susan Olding, author of Big Reader and Pathologies: A Life in Essays

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal306.85

Table Of ContentIntroduction Donna McCart SharkeyMovies: The Secret Sin Ralph FriesenMan with Cucumbers Myrna KostashThe Front Door Jane MunroWhat You Didn't Tell Elizabeth TemplemanMy Mother's Madness JoAnn McCaigWe Had One, Too Maureen HynesThe Lost Epistles of Margie John BartonUnderstanding My Face Michelle BrownGrief Frances RooneyPaired Secrets Ann DavisMay Her Memory Nancy IssenmanRoses Jessie CarsonWe Should Talk About This Later Sharon CookI Should Have Known (A Found Correspondence) Blaine MarchandFrozen Air Linda BriskinSabbath Wendy DonowaDrawing Out Shadows Caroline PurchaseUmbilical Noose David PimmFireflies Soriya TurnerJust a Story Debby YaffeMysterious Death on the Family Homestead Renee DuddridgeSpectral Stories Lenore MaybaumUncle Fred's Secret Ruby SwansonThe Road Leads to Crosby Beach Amanda HalePistal Packing Momma Phyllis SchullCover Story Betsy WarlandTwelve Red Letters Jean CrozierI found a Picture of my Great Aunt Heather RamsayBingo and Black Ice George IlsleyShattered Helen GowansIn the Adaptation Judy LeBlancWould you Trade This Family? Kae SolomonStiff Upper Lip Kate EcklandSecrets Breed Questions Carole HarmonThe Boyfriend Liana CusmanoA Real Doozie Pat BucknaThe Real Truth Susan BraleyThe Doll Laurel M. RossFractal Adrienne GruberThe Ribbon Tree Shelley A. LeedahlLife Examined Through Frames Joan ConwayMy Three Fathers Pat PrestonWhat's New, Wild Child? Joy Thierry LewellynDeda Claire SichermanLittle Bird Cornelia HooglandA True Story AnonymousFamily Still Life Kathleen VanceInsomnia Chris SmartIf it Weren't for You Kids Leslie SilvermanA Risk Worth Concealing Christine K. AnzurThe State of Our Father Ingrid RoseFamily Secrets Susan ScrutonEulogy Jim NasonShame Barbara BarryKnothole Laura SprouleBottle Dump Yaana DancerWent West Cynthia Woodman KirkhamKingdom Hall Leesa HannaThe Curse of Sin City Sarah Williams

SynopsisDonna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré, sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don?t Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don?t Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories ? some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery., Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré, sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don't Tell: Family Secrets , about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don't Tell: Family Secrets , fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories--some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery., Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré, sisters and writers, have co-edited the anthology Don't Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don't Tell: Family Secrets, sixty-one writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories - some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery.

LC Classification NumberHQ734