The Erratics
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
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What happens when the family you grew up with turns out to be a house of mirrors — every reflection distorted, every memory contested? The Erratics is a searing memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, chronicling her harrowing return to the remote Canadian prairies of Alberta to confront a crisis involving her elderly, dangerously erratic mother and her ailing father. Written with razor-sharp precision and dark, unsettling wit, the narrative uncovers years of dysfunction, manipulation, and survival, as Laveau-Harvie and her sister attempt to rescue their father from the suffocating grip of a mother whose reality has long since fractured from the truth. Awarded the prestigious Stella Prize in 2019, this memoir stands as a remarkable testament to resilience and the complicated calculus of family loyalty. Laveau-Harvie's prose is deceptively spare — each sentence lands with the quiet force of a stone dropped into still water — and her unflinching honesty transforms personal trauma into something universal and profoundly human. Geological in its metaphor (erratics are boulders carried far from their origin by glacial forces), the title itself asks the reader to consider how far any of us are truly carried from where we began — and whether we can ever find our way back.
Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Format: Paperback
Published: 2018, Fourth Estate
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when the family you grew up with turns out to be a house of mirrors — every reflection distorted, every memory contested? The Erratics is a searing memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, chronicling her harrowing return to the remote Canadian prairies of Alberta to confront a crisis involving her elderly, dangerously erratic mother and her ailing father. Written with razor-sharp precision and dark, unsettling wit, the narrative uncovers years of dysfunction, manipulation, and survival, as Laveau-Harvie and her sister attempt to rescue their father from the suffocating grip of a mother whose reality has long since fractured from the truth. Awarded the prestigious Stella Prize in 2019, this memoir stands as a remarkable testament to resilience and the complicated calculus of family loyalty. Laveau-Harvie's prose is deceptively spare — each sentence lands with the quiet force of a stone dropped into still water — and her unflinching honesty transforms personal trauma into something universal and profoundly human. Geological in its metaphor (erratics are boulders carried far from their origin by glacial forces), the title itself asks the reader to consider how far any of us are truly carried from where we began — and whether we can ever find our way back.