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These graceful, probing personal essays by award-winning writer Dora Dueck engage with a diverse range of ideas (becoming a writer, motherhood, mortality, the ethics of biography, a child's coming-out) because in non-fiction, she writes, "the quest for meaning bows to the experience as it was." Yet within Return Stroke, one theme in particular does resonate--change. And the topic of memory, in all its malleability, impermanence, and surprising power, is central to the collection's concluding piece, an absorbing memoir of the author's 1980s life in the Paraguayan Chaco. Whether she is…mehr

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These graceful, probing personal essays by award-winning writer Dora Dueck engage with a diverse range of ideas (becoming a writer, motherhood, mortality, the ethics of biography, a child's coming-out) because in non-fiction, she writes, "the quest for meaning bows to the experience as it was." Yet within Return Stroke, one theme in particular does resonate--change. And the topic of memory, in all its malleability, impermanence, and surprising power, is central to the collection's concluding piece, an absorbing memoir of the author's 1980s life in the Paraguayan Chaco. Whether she is discovering the more meaningful part that imagination holds within her religious faith or relating with astonishing clarity and honesty the experience of giving birth away from her home country, Dora Dueck's beautifully written essays and memoir make her an insightful and generous companion.
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Autorenporträt
Dora Dueck is author of the novelsUnder the Still Standing Sun, This Hidden Thing, andAll That Belongs;and the short story collectionWhat You Get At Home(winner of the High Plains Book Award). In 2014 she was the winner of the Malahat Review Novella Prize. In 2022 she published a collection of personal essays & memoir, Return Stroke. She lives in British Columbia.