This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson

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This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson

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Summary

A memoir in the form of a series of sharply etched vignettes that shift astonishingly in time and mood, and range in place from Africa and the US to the streets of London. It demonstrates that no moment is isolated, and that privilege, conflict, race and gender are inherent in all our encounters, from the banal to the extreme

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This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson

Lara Pawson's This Is the Place to Be is a stark, compassionate and troubling text that summons a fragmentary autobiography, circling experiences from her growing up in England and her time as a reporter covering civil wars in Angola and Ivory Coast. She deals with big questions through an intimate mosaic of lived experiences - the blank, funny, awful, gentle shards that remain in memory years after events have taken place - returning her again and again to the themes of identity, violence, race, class, sexuality and the everyday lives of people across several continents.

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Lara Pawson lives in east London. She is the author of In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre (2014) and Spent Light (2024).
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ISBN 13 9781909585218
ISBN 10 1909585211
Title This is the Place to Be
Author Lara Pawson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher CB Editions
Year published 2016-09-06
Number of pages 136
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