Family history
By: Johanna Emeney
Series: Hoopla series
Publisher: Mākaro Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Eastbourne [New Zealand]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780994137814; 9780994137838
Copyright date: 2017
Description: A family's history turns on its head when a mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. Beyond the shock of discovering the disease, there are questions raised about genetics - all the more difficult when the mother's an adoptee. For Johanna Emeney, the members of her small, country family were also quickly overwhelmed by the city-based clinical world they found themselves in, and the way it depersonalised the central figure in their lives. In her second collection, Johanna brings her family history to the page - in all its uniqueness and ordinariness - and challenges the medical approach that can forget the person inside the patient.
Notes: Poems.

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Table of contents: title: (I) Captions:; title: Captions; title: Family history; title: Portrait of a girl sitting backwards on her pony; title: There are no more horses here; title: Ducklings; title: Maureen in a row of lettuces, 1972; title: Cool storage; title: Anonymous; title: (ii) First-degree relatives ...:; title: Lines overheard at the teaching hospital; title: Medical miracles; title: How you guess she doesn't have the best breast surgeon; title: The surgeon's secretary is also his wife; title: Understanding; title: On my shoulders; title: Night nurses; title: Curtains; title: No no no; title: Sick room; title: Ward rounds; title: The district nurse; title: Norma-Jean, Naomi, Tammy and Grace; title: Good doctors; title: (iii) Only recently has cancer ...:; title: 6-month MRI; title: Reassurance; title: Ka mate; title: Signs; title: Against overhearing; title: Heartache all around; title: One criticism of your novels; title: Shared lines; title: And then it spreads; title: Invicta; title: (iv) Once death has occurred ...:; title: My mother wasn't supposed to die; title: Flail chest; title: Shaken down; title: Undertaking; title: How large was your heart; title: Chardin rabbits; title: Old habits; title: Man, working; title: Dandelion; title: Resting tremor; title: Ham bag; title: Blue horse, black dog, amber pig; title: Glass bowl with pink swirls.