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The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir | 
| Author: Valerie Miner
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Sales Rank: 926339
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0870136402
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780870136405
ASIN: 0870136402
Publication Date: May 2002
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Product Description
This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life, writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty striken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity.
Utterly engrossing, The Low Road navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach a place of acceptance and understanding.
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