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THROWAWAY PEOPLE [Print Replica]
In THROWAWAY PEOPLE, Birdie’s carefully cloistered world breaks wide open when she finds the body of a fisherman washed up on a Scottish beach, reminding her of the brother she lost, when she was 11. Her parents threw him away, and she never knew what happened to him. Decades ago, she’d fled abuse and the doors she felt closed to her of both her Native and White ancestry. Now, it is 1995 and at 59, she returns to Canada for answers. But to do that, she must walk through a minefield of racism and betrayal, as well as her own guilt and lack of confidence, to find her brother and her own identity, somewhere between Native and White. Balancing fear and determination, Birdie's exploration of her tortured past puts her in the path of an unknown assailant who wants her story buried, along with her.
This story is my healing song, and my wish is to make generational trauma caused by the Residential School experience, part of our national historical narrative. As my Native Gramma, a residential school survivor, used to say 'when one part of the circle is ill, the whole circle is ill'. Publishing THROWAWAY PEOPLE is my humble attempt to give her a voice and respect she was denied while living.
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About the Author
This is Mallory Eaglewood’s fifth published work, following Hummingbirds, The Good Life, Pink Pistachios, and Oiseaux-Mouches. In many ways, she can relate to Birdie, this story’s protagonist, having spent most of her own life struggling to understand the human drive to connect with one another, and exploring the subtle complexities of what makes humans do what they do.
Winner of an Author of the Year award from the Province Newspaper―for an article about the absurdity of war, member of Federation of BC Writers for many years, Mallory has had a career in teaching literature, working as Head Teacher and Course Programmer.
Additionally, Mallory’s life is full of fascinating experiences, from being an officer in the Canadian Military, a meditation mentor in a Buddhist Abbey, and dealing with a gunman in the Syrian desert and a couple of sharks at 30 feet below the surface, off the coast of Bali, checking to see if she were lunch. Along the way, she has lived and worked in Scotland, England, and Greece.
This grandmother of three is presently a full-time writer from her home base, a small red cabin in the woods, situated on a sparsely populated little island off the coast of British Columbia.
www.malloryeaglewood.com
Mallory’s Motto:
Do not go gentle into that good night, (but) …Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas