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There Is No Blue is both a close observation of a family's experience of a diagnosis of mental illness, and a layered story of grief.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750576529681,"sku":"NGR9781803511030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49959286276369,"sku":"GOR013502705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51720743649553,"sku":"GOR013549656","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52884829536529,"sku":"GOR014652938","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1803511036.jpg?v=1759233086"},{"product_id":"search-for-heinrich-schloegel-book-martha-baillie-9781935639909","title":"The Search for Heinrich Schloegel","description":"Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlogel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences strange encounters and inexplicable visions. Time plays tricks on him. When he returns to civilization, he discovers that, though he has not aged, thirty years have passed. Narrated by an unnamed archivist who is attempting to piece together the truth of Heinrich's life, The Search for Heinrich Schlogel dances between reality and fantasy. Heinrich's story, as it unfolds, in today's disappearing North, asks us to consider our role in imagining the future into existence while considering the consequences of our past choices. 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Baillie is well-connected in the art world, having written for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Koffler Gallery. Her multimedia installation, The Schlögel Archive, was well-received during the 2015 CONTACT Photography Festival.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50388783169809,"sku":"CIN1552453561G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036736946449,"sku":"NIN9781552453568","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52202141647121,"sku":"GOR014499866","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552453561.jpg?v=1751086886"},{"product_id":"there-is-no-blue-book-martha-baillie-9781552454749","title":"There Is No Blue","description":"WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION  THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023  THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023  CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023  Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time.   Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author’s mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author’s father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother’s. And then, the shocking death of the author’s sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life.  In this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of The Incident Report.  \"Martha Baillie’s novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of sui generis and just plain generous. That There Is No Blue, her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the “disobedient tale” of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie’s variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love.\" – Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women  \"This is a stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life. Baillie subtly interrogates and conveys the devastating mistranslations that take place in childhood, the antagonism and porousness of siblings, and the tragedy of schizophrenia as it unfolds. I couldn’t put it down.\" – Dr. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad and Everyday Madness  \"\"Exquisite.\" – Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife  \"I am grateful for this profound meditation on family and loss.” – Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker  \"This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author’s identity by way of her mother’s death, her sister’s failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human.\" – Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51036956131601,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036958982417,"sku":"NIN9781552454749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552454746.jpg?v=1750829811"},{"product_id":"incident-report-book-martha-baillie-9781552454565","title":"The Incident Report","description":"In a Toronto library, home to the mad and the marginalized, notes appear, written by someone who believes he is Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester from Verdi's opera. Convinced that the young librarian, Miriam, is his daughter, he promises to protect her from grief. Little does he know how much loss she has already experienced; or does he? The Incident Report, both mystery and love story, daringly explores the fragility of our individual identities. Strikingly original in its structure, comprised of 140 highly distilled, lyric \"reports,\" the novel depicts the tensions between private and public storytelling, the subtle dynamics of a socially exposed workplace. The Incident Report is a novel of \"gestures,\" one that invites the reader to be astonished by the circumstances its characters confront. Reports on bizarre public behaviour intertwine with reports on the private life of the novel's narrator. Shifting constantly between harmony and dissonance, elegant in its restraint and excitingly contemporary, The Incident Report takes the pulse of our fragmented urban existence with detachment and wit, while a quiet tragedy unfolds.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51388222013713,"sku":"NIN9781552454565","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51444267122961,"sku":"NGR9781552454565","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52667646116113,"sku":"NLS9781552454565","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552454568.jpg?v=1751244378"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-martha-baillie.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}