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Disappearing in reverse

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    University of Calgary Press, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    2020
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    Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?

    This picture of Devin, alive when she should not be alive, triggers of a journey of grief and discovery as the young woman convinced that she caused Devin’s death sets out to discover whether Devin may actually be alive, and whether she can be forgiven. Along the way she steals identities, picking up and discarding the people she may or may not be as she struggles with her guilt, and to come to terms with her own bisexuality. As her sense of self unravels, she meets Calgary hippies, a car thief, and an ice cream loving corpse.

    Disappearing in Reverse is a mystery, a road novel, and a coming of age story. Blending past and present, the self and the other, it crosses genres and defies categorization to be met and addressed on its own terms. Fearless and vulnerable, unabashed and wounded, this is a story of the liminal places where expectations falter and the unexpected thrives.

    Subject(s): Grief | Bisexuality | Western Canada
    Original Publisher: Calgary, University of Calgary Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781773851457, 1773851454, 9781773851440, 1773851446
    Collection(s)/Series: Read Alberta eBook Collection