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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Toxemia

by (author) Christine McNair

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Category
Personal Memoirs, Women Authors, Essays
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771669214
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $14.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771669146
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

In this alchemy of anger and love, history and memoir, Christine McNair delves into various forms of toxicity in the body—from the effects of two life-threatening preeclampsia diagnoses to chronic illness, sexism in medicine, and the toll of societal expectations.

With catharsis and humour, Toxemia pieces together the complexities of identity, motherhood, and living in a body to reveal deeply recognizable raw truths. McNair captures the wrenching feeling of loss of control in the face of an overwhelming medical diagnosis and the small, endless moments in life that underscore it: worrying about mortality in the middle of the night, revolving medical appointments, self-doubt, and all the ways in which illness interrupts.

Toxemia unravels the toxicities that haunt the human body from within and without. Combining lyrical essays, prose poetry, photographs, and more, this hybrid work dips between the sacred and profane, exposing—and holding—some of our greatest fears.

About the author

Christine McNair is the author of Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award), Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry), and Toxemia. She was also nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in sundry literary journals and anthologies. McNair lives in Ottawa where she works as a book doctor.

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