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Hardcover The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir Book

ISBN: 0870135929

ISBN13: 9780870135927

The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir (Minnesota)

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"This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life," writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty stricken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity.
Utterly engrossing, The Low Road navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach a place of acceptance and understanding.

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Passionate and Engrossing Memoir

This award-winning author has shared her family history in a captivating way. I liked the way she told her personal story within the context of Scottish history and politics. I especially recommend it to readers who are curious about their own Scottish heritage. The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
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