Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets by Wills, Clair
Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets by Wills, Clair

Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern...
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets by Wills, Clair

Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

$61.15
Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets by Wills, Clair

Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

$61.15
Author: Clair Wills
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.

In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an investigation into the state's network of Mother and Baby Homes after the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of up to eight hundred children prompted international outrage. The homes, which operated from the 1920s to the 1990s, were responsible for nearly nine thousand child deaths and countless other abuses.

Yet in the face of overwhelming evidence, everyone seemed to forget what had actually occurred. No one remembered who the babies were, how they died, or where they were buried. A whole society had learned not to look, or not to look too closely, and certainly not to ask too many questions.

Clair Wills's investigation leads her back to the discovery that nearly thirty years ago a cousin of hers had been born in one of the Homes and her existence had been covered up. As Wills finds out more about her own family's secret chronicle of loss, her investigation expands into an exploration of the secrets and silences that make up our family stories, the limits of record-keeping, and the fragility of memory itself. Wills unravels a history of illegitimacy that stretches back into her grandmother's life in Ireland a hundred years ago and forward to her own generation today. Missing Persons reveals the truth that seeps through the gaps in our stories about the past and that is encrypted in things left unsaid--if you learn how to read what is missing.

Author: Clair Wills
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374611866

About the Author
Clair Wills is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, named the Irish Times International Nonfiction Book of the Year, and That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War, winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, among other works. She is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She lives in London
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