Bilingual Being
Subtitle: My Life As a Hyphen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780773541191
Subjects: Bilingualism; Quebec (province), social conditions; Adult child sexual abuse victims; Catholic church, canada; Quebec (province), biography
Description: This gutsy, immensely readable memoir traces the influence of the author's mother tongue in the formation of her identity, and the role her second language played in providing a psychological sanctuary. The author recounts the emotional gains and losses of a life lived in two languages and the changing role of the Catholic Church.