A Tremor Through Time. Recollections from a Northern Ontario Childhood 12+

📕 Tragic Coincidence A baby dies in a car accident on the way to a memorial mass, fifteen years to the day after the mining accident that took the life of his grandfather. This tragic coincidence set the stage for the author's birth a year later.A Tremor Through Time is a memoir about the resilience of a young girl growing up in a family struggling with guilt and grief. It takes the reader from the author's earliest memory of finding herself alone in a bus depot on her way home from kindergarten to her decision to leave home and attend university.The memoir moves between past and present connecting vignettes from the author's youth-written from a child's perspective-with contemporary scenes and conversations. Set in a northern mining town, moments of fun and friendship are interspersed with scenes of anger and apprehension that highlight an increasingly difficult relationship between father and daughter....