Kyle Mewburn

Faking It (eBook, ePUB)

My Life in Transition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mewburn, a celebrated children's author, tells her story with directness and humour. She transports the reader back to the stifling conservatism of suburban Brisbane in the 1960s and '70s to meet the little boy who felt like ''strawberry jam in a can marked spinach''. There's real pain here as Mewburn recalls the secrecy, repression and violence running beneath the surface of family life, dynamics that shaped the psyche of the young ''boy Kyle'' and taught habits of detachment and shame that would prove hard to break. But she also finds comedy in the ironies offered up by that era and culture. . . . Ultimately, this brave and revealing story asserts that no life should be constrained by lazy, simplistic binaries. When no-one has to fake it -when everyone can be real, complex, and contradictory -we are all of us the better for it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143775195
• Artikelnr.: 61993060

Autorenporträt

A multi-award-winning writer. She has written numerous children's picture books and chapter books. A well-known speaker at schools and literary festivals, Kyle was the 2011 University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence and was the President of the New Zealand Society of Authors from 2012-2016. She lives with her wife Marion in Millers Flat, Central Otago, in a house with a grass roof. Faking It: My Life in Transition is her true life story and her first book for adults.