Marrow Memory
Essays of Discovery
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2024
- Category
- Essays, Genealogy & Heraldry), Essays, Genetics & Genomics
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989496909
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $22.00
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Description
In Marrow Memory Margaret Nowaczyk explores different facets of her life, from listening to the radio dramas of her childhood in Communist Poland to her work as a pediatric clinical geneticist. These are beautifully crafted essays, full of hard-won truths and insights, generously shared with the reader. Whether struggling with English as a teenaged refugee or documenting the process of permanent hair dye, Nowaczyk moves seamlessly between scientific and personal writing, bridging the gap between these two areas with elegance and humour. Marrow Memory is an invitation to the reader to marvel in the unexpected beauties of human experience and the ability of language to capture that.
About the authors
Born in Poland, Margaret Nowaczyk is a pediatric clinical geneticist and a professor at McMaster University and DeGroote School of Medicine. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Canadian, Polish and American literary magazines and anthologies. She lives in Hamilton, ON, with her husband and two sons.
Editorial Reviews
"Dr. Nowaczyk presents an organic and unique authorial voice that glows in her knowledge of science, memory and encounter with nature resulting in a beautiful narrative of self-exploration like no other text I have read."
Sara Hailstone
"Marrow Memory balances the personal and professional – Nowaczyk’s Polish past filled with teenage desire, and her present expertise specializing in pediatric genetics."
The Seaboard Review
