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Ghosts in a photograph : a chronicle

Title

Ghosts in a photograph : a chronicle / Myrna Kostash.

Author

Kostash, Myrna

Publication

Edmonton, Alberta : NeWest Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description

xxv, 275 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families' pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada. This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of families survive in a new country: one as homesteaders, the other as working-class Edmontonians. Working within the gaps in history--including the unsolved murder in Ukraine of her great uncle--Kostash uses her remarkable acumen as a writer and researcher to craft a probable narrative to interrogate the idea of straightforward and singular-voiced pasts and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from. Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle."--

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272).

Additional Formats (note)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

9781774390573
1774390574
9781774390580 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

on1289494046
SCSB-14664548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library