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Beyond the Crazy House / Pat Capponi

Public ISBD Title : Beyond the Crazy House Material Type: printed text Authors: Pat Capponi, Author Publisher: Penguin Canada Publication Date: 2003 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-100510-2 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Abstract: This is a new book from the author of "Upstairs in the Crazy House", the critically acclaimed memoir of her own experiences as a mental health patient. Now, a decade on, she returns to the subject of mental illness, introducing us to psychiatric survivors, who, like herself, have managed to reconstruct their lives against all odds. As the survivors' stories unfold, Capponi offers her own informed and deeply humane critique of the Canadian mental health system, creating a portrait of mental illness, the people who live with it, and a treatment system in desperate need of reform. Beyond the Crazy House [printed text] / Pat Capponi, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Canada, 2003. ISBN : 978-0-14-100510-2 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Abstract: This is a new book from the author of "Upstairs in the Crazy House", the critically acclaimed memoir of her own experiences as a mental health patient. Now, a decade on, she returns to the subject of mental illness, introducing us to psychiatric survivors, who, like herself, have managed to reconstruct their lives against all odds. As the survivors' stories unfold, Capponi offers her own informed and deeply humane critique of the Canadian mental health system, creating a portrait of mental illness, the people who live with it, and a treatment system in desperate need of reform.

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Paper Shadows / Wayne Choy

Public ISBD Title : Paper Shadows : A Chinatown Childhood Material Type: printed text Authors: Wayne Choy, Author Publisher: Penguin Canada Publication Date: 1999 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-026819-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: Inspired by the revelation the author had been adopted, this book is a memoir that reveals the uncanny similarities between the secrets that enrich his first novel, "The Jade Peony", and the newly discovered secrets of his own Vancouver Chinatown childhood. From his early experiences with ghosts, through his youthful encounters with cowboys and bachelor uncles, to his discovery of deeply held family secrets that crossed the ocean from mainland China to Gold Mountain in the form of paper shadows, this is a beautifully wrought portrait of a child's world. Paper Shadows : A Chinatown Childhood [printed text] / Wayne Choy, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Canada, 1999. ISBN : 978-0-14-026819-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: Inspired by the revelation the author had been adopted, this book is a memoir that reveals the uncanny similarities between the secrets that enrich his first novel, "The Jade Peony", and the newly discovered secrets of his own Vancouver Chinatown childhood. From his early experiences with ghosts, through his youthful encounters with cowboys and bachelor uncles, to his discovery of deeply held family secrets that crossed the ocean from mainland China to Gold Mountain in the form of paper shadows, this is a beautifully wrought portrait of a child's world.

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PER CHO 1999	PER CHO 1999	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Biography and personal stories	Available

Prisoner of Tehran / Marina Nemat

Public ISBD Title : Prisoner of Tehran Material Type: printed text Authors: Marina Nemat, Author Publisher: Penguin Canada Publication Date: 2008 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-305217-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Prisons and Criminalization Prisons and Political Prisoners Religion and Spirituality Trauma Women of Colour Keywords: memoir  prison  politics  Iran  revolution  women  religion  Islam Abstract: "In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but, ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and injustice." Prisoner of Tehran [printed text] / Marina Nemat, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Canada, 2008. ISBN : 978-0-14-305217-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Prisons and Criminalization Prisons and Political Prisoners Religion and Spirituality Trauma Women of Colour Keywords: memoir  prison  politics  Iran  revolution  women  religion  Islam Abstract: "In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time when most Western teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed. She survived only because one of the guards fell in love with her and threatened to harm her family if she refused to marry him. Soon after her forced conversion to Islam and marriage, her husband was assassinated by rival factions. Nemat was returned to prison but, ironically, it was her captor's family who eventually secured her release. An extraordinary tale of faith and survival, Prisoner of Tehran is a testament to the power of love in the face of evil and injustice."

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PER NEM 2008	PER NEM 2008	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Biography and personal stories	Due for return by 12/05/2017

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness / Arundhati Roy

Public ISBD Title : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Material Type: printed text Authors: Arundhati Roy, Author Publisher: Penguin Canada Publication Date: 2017 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7352-3434-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Abstract: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Dehli and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope. The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo's landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi. As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these richly complex lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness [printed text] / Arundhati Roy, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Canada, 2017. ISBN : 978-0-7352-3434-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Abstract: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Dehli and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope. The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo's landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi. As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these richly complex lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.

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FIC ROY 2017	FIC ROY 2017	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Fiction (QM)	Due for return by 10/06/2017