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Birrell, Heather

 
9781552455005: Born
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1552455009 ISBN 13: 9781552455005
Editorial: Coach House Books, 2025

Sinopsis

What happens when an English teacher goes into labour during a high school lockdown?

High school English teacher Elise loves teaching Shakespeare. She is also very pregnant and trapped in a classroom with her Grade 12 students during a lockdown. Anthony, the cause of the lockdown, is roaming the halls with a knife in search of some solace, consumed by thoughts of his best friend Samantha’s suicide attempt. Maria, the school’s counsellor, is second-guessing her decision to turn him in.

As the lockdown drags on, Elise can no longer deny that she’s going into labour. And she’ll have to rely on the students to get her through: Shai-Anna and Faduma end up acting as midwives, and the others do what they can.

This isn't your typical lockdown story. With clear-eyed empathy, Born explores the many pitfalls and utopian possibilities of the school system, motherhood, and caregiving, and the sometimes fraught, sometimes transcendent nature of the student-teacher relationship.

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Acerca del autor

Heather Birrell is the author of the Gerald Lampert award-winning poetry collection, Float and Scurry, and two story collections, Mad Hope (a Globe and Mail top fiction pick for 2012) and I know you are but what am I?. Heather’s work has been honoured with the Journey Prize for short fiction, the Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction, and ARC Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award. She has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Award and both National and Western Magazine Awards (Canada). Heather’s essay about motherhood appeared in The M Word, an anthology that broadens the conversation about what mothering means today, and an essay about post-partum depression was a notable mention in Best American Essays 2017. Heather teaches at a small alternative high school in Toronto, where she lives with her mother, partner, two daughters, and a whoodle named Angus.

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Editorial
Coach House Books
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1552455009
ISBN 13 
9781552455005
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
216
Contacto del fabricante
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