The Smallest Objective

by Sharon Kirsch

Overview

Excavating for buried treasure in her family home, the narrator of The Smallest Objective is limited to only a few clues: a lantern slide, a faded recipe book, a postcard from Mexico, a nugget of fool's gold. Each one is an object belonging to an early- to mid-20th century Montreal Jewish personality - a celebrated hustler, a Lithuanian botanist, a young woman of independent spirit. As the narrator struggles with her mother's failing memory and final decline, unexpected secrets come into focus and a legacy of willed forgetfulness is revealed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554201556
Publisher:	New Star Books
Publication date:	04/23/2020
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sharon Kirsch is the author of THE SMALLEST OBJECTIVE (New Star Books, 2020) and WHAT SPECIES OF CREATURES (2008), a book of creative non-fiction about first encounters between early settlers to North America and unfamiliar "beasts." A writer and an editor, she has published fiction, narrative non-fiction, and journalism, most recently in subTerrain and Room magazines. Sharon Kirsch is originally from Montreal and has lived in the US and the UK, the latter as a Commonwealth Scholar for postgraduate study in Middle English literature. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program. She currently is based in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Treasure 1

Chapter 2 Lantern Slides 35

Chapter 3 Shut Out the Yesterdays 83

Chapter 4 The Right Part of Life 101

Chapter 5 Lake Pátzcuaro 145

Chapter 6 Counterclockwise 185

Chapter 7 The Possibilities Are Fantastic 201

Afterword Malibu Apr 02 237

Sources 244

List of Photographs 254

Acknowledgments 256