
Small beneath the sky: a prairie memoir
Biography, Literature biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Poet Crozier vividly depicts her hometown of Swift Current, with its one main street, two high schools, and three beer parlours - where her father spent most of his evenings. She writes unflinchingly about the grief and shame caused by… poverty and alcoholism, while at the heart of the book is her fierce love for her mother, Peggy. The narratives of daily life - sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking - are interspersed with prose poems. Some strong language. 2009.