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Book SynopsisShe is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point of obsession. She sees a child as her salvation. Her fervour results in a false pregnancy and in her denial she forms a belief that the child has been spirited away from her. As she formulates and executes a plan to retrieve her child, her personality fragments to the point of disintegration.
Penelope''s fixation begins with a tragedy that occurred when she was a little girl: her one-year-old sister lurched out of her arms and plunged to her death. Penelope never forgives herself and searches constantly for the lost baby that would make her whole. Hearing of a black baby adopted by a rich white couple, she concludes that this is her stolen child, and she steals him back. Little by little, her already fragile self fragments into at least six personalities, all of whom c
Trade Review
"From academic English to various Caribbean dialects and patois, from ragged prose to surgically precise and playful verse, Harris displays startling versatility in both voice and form. Ambitious and pulled off with heartbreaking flair, She is a virtuioso performance from a player who has earned her place in the spotlight." * Quill & Quire *
