Title: The Low Road
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, Emigration and immigration, English teachers, Family, Family relationships, History, Mothers and daughters, Scottish Americans, Women immigrants, Families, Authors, biography, Scotland, emigration and immigration, Teachers, biography
Places: Scotland, United States
People: Valerie Miner
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3563.I4647 Z465 2001