The Language of Remembering Olivia McCannon Set in Canada and Jamaica

Set in Canada and Jamaica in the 1960s

fractured love

London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her

“A superlative plot-master

found poems and the inheritors of a confessional poetics [

The Language of Remembering Olivia McCannon Set in Canada and JamaicaReturning from Brazil with his wife and daughter, Oisn is looking to rebuild a life in Ireland and reconnect with his mother, Brigid, who has early onset Alzheimers. As her condition deteriorates she starts to speak Irish, the language of her youth, and reflect on her childhood dreams and aspirations. Mother and son embark on a journey of personal discovery, and as past traumas are exposed they begin to understand what has shaped them and who they