Literary Nonfiction.
Memoir.
In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada.
Through memory fragments, clips of poetry, diary entries, and her own art, the author reveals the trauma of three senseless wars, a decade of dehumanizing sanctions on an innocent population, the blindness of a dictatorship to the suffering of its own people, and finally their resilience and the humanity they manage to preserve.
About the Author Lamees Al Ethari immigrated to Canada with her husband and two boys in 2008.
She holds a Ph D in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo, where she has been teaching creative and academic writing since 2015.
Her writing and research focus on Iraqi North American women's life narratives of trauma and migration.
She is also a Consulting Editor with The New Quarterly and co-coordinator of The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop for Immigrant Women in Kitchener-Waterloo.
She is the author of a poetry collection titled From the Wounded Banks of the Tigris (Baseline Press, 2018) and her poems have appeared in About Place Journal, The New Quarterly, The Malpais Review, and the anthology Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here.
She lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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Mawenzi House/tsar Publishers Waiting for the rain: an iraqi memoir, paperback/lamees al ethari
