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Sonja Boon

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The United Kingdom

Website

https://whattheoceansremember.com/

Twitter

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Memoir, Music

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April 2015

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Sonja Boon is a researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist living in St.
John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Her memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home will be published in September 2019 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Geist, The Ethnic Aisle, and donttalktomeaboutlove.org, and is forthcoming in Room (2020), and in the edited collection Big: Stories About Life in Plus-Sized Bodies (Caitlin Press, 2020). She is a winner of the Marina Nemat Award (Creative Writing Program, School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, 2018), and has been shortlisted for Room magazine’s Creative Non-Fiction contest (2015) and longlisted for CBC Canada Writes Creative Non-Fictio ...more

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a week in the Netherlands

Earlier this fall, I got a lovely invitation from Dr. Babs Boter to present a keynote talk for Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing, an annual symposium at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Close on the heels of this invitation came another from Garjan Sterk, a colleague and friend working in the Gender & Diversity Studies program at Radboud University, N

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	Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies by Christina Myers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rohini Bannerjee, Amanda Scriver (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Oceans Remember 4.25 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands by Sonja Boon (Goodreads Author), Lesley Butler, Daze Jefferies (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada by Sonja Boon (Goodreads Author), Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Mr. Smallwood: Confederation in the Words of Those Who Lived It by Sonja Boon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vicki Hallett (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot (McGill-Queen’s/Associated ... of Medicine, Health, and Society) (Volume 44) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Introduction to Auto/Biography in Canada by Sonja Boon (Goodreads Author), Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot (McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the ... Health, and Society Book 44) (Volume 44) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars