Tissue

by Sally Berridge

Tissue is both an autobiography and a comment on the autobiographical process. The first part describes a life lived in four British India, the British colony of Kenya, England and Australia, and the consequences of the end of colonialism for a child that was inadvertently part of it. It also describes a return to Kenya in 2003 to find a lost farm, and a lifelong search for a lost mother and her family in England.The second part of the book looks at some of the ideas around autobiography that may be taken for issues of memory, identity and time, and cultural narratives that may affect the ways in which autobiographies can be written.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 24, 2014