Kathleen Venema Publishes Memoir
Tue. Jun. 5, 2018
Professor Kathleen Venema has published a memoir, Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces as part of the Life Writing series of Wilfrid Laurier University Press: https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/B/Bird-Bent-Grass
Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease twenty years later.
The book will have its Winnipeg launch on Friday, April 20th, 2018 at 7:00 pm at McNally Robnison Grant Park in the Atrium.
For an interview with Kathleen see here: http://open-book.ca/News/Loss-and-Absence-Challenge-Us-to-Become-Who-We-Are-Kathleen-Venema-on-Her-Unique-Mother-Daughter-Memoir
To hear Kathleen talk about the book, and excerpts from the book, on CBC Radio click here: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/in-town-and-out/segment/15530985
For an interview and conversation with Kathleen in the Winnipeg Free Press see here: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/in-conversation-kathleen-venema-479652543.html
Kathleen also participated in a Memoirists' Roundtable posted at the 49th Shelf website: https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2018/05/21/Memoirists-Roundtable