{"product_id":"what-we-remember-what-we-forget-by-siobhan-harvey-9781991348203","title":"What We Remember, What We Forget","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘We are our memories. They are a repository of our lives.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat We Remember, What We Forget\u003c\/em\u003e by Siobhan Harvey is a personal narrative and poignant meditation on the power and peril of remembering – as well as of forgetting. Moving between childhood, early adulthood, imagination, and the present, Harvey writes with honest intimacy about trauma, family, and queerness; harm, silence, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterweaving life story with reflections on philosophy and psychology, Harvey considers how memory both wounds and sustains, and how it may be safely carried so as to create the life one wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElegantly written, this is a powerful work about attention, language, and the hard but fruitful labour of understanding. \u003cem\u003eWhat We Remember, What We Forget\u003c\/em\u003e asks: how should we retrieve our memories, and how can we trust what we find?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘...memory is a creative endeavour: memory, the director’s cut; memory, a book of collected poems; memory, an exhibition of curated portraits; memory, a Surrealist retrospective.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47329718927596,"sku":"9781991348203","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/06c79f64331a3d09124a42d0911441f0.jpg?v=1771889844","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/what-we-remember-what-we-forget-by-siobhan-harvey-9781991348203","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}