![]() A time when, perhaps, like me, you are looking to discover something new to read in the quieter moments. I am quietly socially-distancing, living through 'COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown' in Scotland, while so much that so many people have taken for granted, is now turned on its head. It feels important to give this frame of reference: none of us will know what our communities and world will look like when this issue of the Journal is published. I am writing this in the middle of April. I sort of realised that at eighteen I had nobody to dispute the memory of me." (Lemn Sissay). The award-winning Scottish author gave an impassioned keynote speech at the CILIPS. "Family is a set of disputed memories between one group of people over a lifetime. Lowborn (CILIPS) author Kerry Hudson has told a Scottish conference that libraries saved her life. ![]() In this review of two powerful memoirs, Samantha Fiander wonders how reflecting on the past might help us to address the challenges we face now. Filename: Fiander_SJRCC_2020_Book_review_lowborn_growing_up_getting_away.pdf ![]()
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