The low road
Subtitle: a Scottish family memoir
By: Valerie Miner.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Miner, Valerie -- Family.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; English teachers -- United States -- Biography.; Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.; Mothers and daughters -- United States.; Mothers and daughters -- Scotland.; Scottish Americans -- Biography.; Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: ""This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life." writes Valerie Miner in this account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty-stricken 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." "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 the place of acceptance and understanding."--BOOK JACKET.