Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Here We Are Among the Living
- Publisher
- Tightrope Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2012
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Women
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926639444
- Publish Date
- Jun 2012
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Finding one’s way in the world is complex enough for the average urban 20-something in the 21st century, but Samantha Bernstein also happens to be the daughter of legendary Canadian poet Irving Layton. This extraordinary epistolary chronicle is an alternatively funny, heartbreaking, and confrontational debut memoir in which Bernstein tackles life, love, family, social engagement, and creativity head on.
About the author
Samantha Bernstein is a Toronto writer and a PHD candidate at York University. Her first book, the memoir, Here We Are Among The Living was nominated for a B.C. National Award for Nonfiction. Her poetry has appeared in Exile, The Fiddlehead Literary Journal, The Whitewall Review and many others and she was featured in Sook Yin Lee's documentary Where Have All The Poets Gone discussing the influence of her father, the legendary poet Irving Layton.
