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Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir
Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her grandfather sort of murdered her grandmother. Returning to a house filled with her first memories of childhood, she begins to explore the complex origins of her own anxiety. Along the way, she reflects on alienation and immigration, mental health and generational trauma, and the nature of memory itself. A memoir filled with raw honesty, comedy, tragedy and grace.
- GenresMemoir
168 pages, Paperback
First published May 18, 2021
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About the author
Kelley Jo Burke
11 books9 followersKelley Jo Burke is an American-born, Winnipeg-raised award-winning playwright , director, storyteller, documentarian (for CBC Radio One’s IDEAS), and producer and broadcaster.
Her plays have been produced and published in Canada, and around the world, including "Somewhere Sask.", (Indie Ink, upcoming) “Ducks on the Moon” (Hagios), "The Selkie Wife" (Scirocco), "Jane's Thumb" (Signature), and "Charming and Rose: True Love (Blizzard).
She dramaturges, directs and produces for stage and regional and national radio and was the host/producer of CBC Saskatchewan’s radio arts performance hour SoundXchange.
She has been a workshop leader in creative process, writing, performance, and creative non-fiction writing and production for more than twenty years.
She is a cultural citizen, serving on Saskatchewan Arts Board juries, judging awards and competitions, a sought-after speaker and panel member for many conferences and arts events, past president of the Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre, and past executive member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada.
She was 2009 winner of the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Leadership in the Arts, the 2009 City of Regina Writing Award (her third time receiving that award), and the 2008 Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Playwriting.
While she has yet to earn any awards for it, she is the mother of three.
Her plays have been produced and published in Canada, and around the world, including "Somewhere Sask.", (Indie Ink, upcoming) “Ducks on the Moon” (Hagios), "The Selkie Wife" (Scirocco), "Jane's Thumb" (Signature), and "Charming and Rose: True Love (Blizzard).
She dramaturges, directs and produces for stage and regional and national radio and was the host/producer of CBC Saskatchewan’s radio arts performance hour SoundXchange.
She has been a workshop leader in creative process, writing, performance, and creative non-fiction writing and production for more than twenty years.
She is a cultural citizen, serving on Saskatchewan Arts Board juries, judging awards and competitions, a sought-after speaker and panel member for many conferences and arts events, past president of the Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre, and past executive member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada.
She was 2009 winner of the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Leadership in the Arts, the 2009 City of Regina Writing Award (her third time receiving that award), and the 2008 Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award for Playwriting.
While she has yet to earn any awards for it, she is the mother of three.
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June 20, 2022
A very fragmented memoir with some great passages, though in the audiobook certain sections are separated by bell rings which is quite annoying.
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