All posts by Brigid Magner
Shannon Burns’ Childhood is a story of disconnection, neglect, violence and poverty
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name: The happy unrecoverable days of childhood! How could I not love, not cherish its memories? They have lifted up and refreshed my…