Don't tell Family secrets
Book - 2023
"Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Pař, 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 ot...hers that remain a mystery."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Literary collections
Poetry
Literature - Published
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Toronto :
Demeter Press
2023.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Prose and poetry.
- Physical Description
- 372 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781772584240
- Introduction. Don't Tell: Family Secrets
- 1. Movies: The Secret Sin
- 2. Man with Cucumbers
- 3. The Front Door
- 4. What You Didn't Tell
- 5. My Mother's Madness
- 6. We Had One, Too
- 7. The Lost Epistles of Margie
- 8. Grief
- 9. Understanding My Face
- 10. Paired Secrets
- 11. May Her Memory
- 12. Roses
- 13. "We Should Talk about This Later"
- 14. I Should Have Known (A Found Correspondence)
- 15. Frozen Air
- 16. Shangri-La
- 17. Sabbath
- 18. Drawing Out Shadows
- 19. Umbilical Noose
- 20. May 31, 1934: My Grandmother Writes to My Grandfather
- 21. Fireflies
- 22. Just a Story
- 23. Mysterious Death on the Family Homestead
- 24. Spectral Stories
- 25. Uncle Fred's Secret
- 26. The Road Leads to Crosby Beach
- 27. Pistol Packing Momma
- 28. Cover Story
- 29. Twelve Red Letters
- 30. I Found a Picture of My Great-Aunt
- 31. Bingo and Black Ice
- 32. Shattered
- 33. In This Adaptation
- 34. Would You Trade This Family?
- 35. Stiff Upper Lip
- 36. Secrets Breed Questions
- 37. The Boyfriend
- 38. A Real Doozie
- 39. The Real Truth
- 40. The Doll
- 41. Fractal
- 42. The Ribbon Tree
- 43. Life examined through frames
- 44. My Three Fathers
- 45. What's New, Wild Child?
- 46. Deda
- 47. Little Bird
- 48. A True Story
- 49. Family Still Life
- 50. Wilted Valentine/Green Shame
- 51. If It Weren't for You Kids
- 52. A Risk Worth Concealing
- 53. The State of Our Father
- 54. Family Secrets
- 55. Eulogy
- 56. Shame
- 57. Knothole
- 58. Bottle Dump
- 59. Went West
- 60. Kingdom Hall
- 61. The Curse of Sin City
- Notes on Contributors