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The Things We Live With

The Things We Live With

Nisbet, Gemma

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0645536806
ISBN13: 9780645536805
Publisher: Upswell Publishing
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us


'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.'

After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated with keepsakes connected to his life by family and friends. As she becomes attuned to the ways certain items can evoke specific memories or moments, she begins to ask questions about the relationships between objects and people. Why is it so difficult to discard some artefacts and not others? Does the power exerted by precious things influence the ways we remember the past and perceive the future? As Nisbet considers her father's life and begins to connect his experiences of mental illness with her own, she wonders whether hanging on to 'stuff' is ultimately a source of comfort or concern.

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