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After years of secrecy and silence Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing
She was never to lie to him She was never to leave him and she was never supposed to tell
Persephones Children chronicles Rowan McCandlesss odyssey as a Black biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a longterm abusive relationship Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss motherhood and daughterhood racism and intergenerational trauma mental illness and resiliency
It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown unnamed ancestors and discover her worth and right to exist in the world
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