A flat place
Masud, Noreen, 1989-2023
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Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she's discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, Morecambe Bay, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.
Main title:
A flat place / Noreen Masud.
Author:
Masud, Noreen, 1989-, author
Imprint:
UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2023.
Collation:
225 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241544051 (hbk. :)
Local class:
B/MASU
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2340278