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White Lies (for my mother) First edition cover of Canadian release
Author 'Liza Potvin' Subject Incest Genre non-fiction Publisher NeWest Press Publication date
1 March 1992 Publication place Canada Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Pages 224 pp. ISBN 9780920897133
White Lies (for my mother) is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Liza Potvin , first published in March 1992 by NeWest Press . In the book, the author chronicles her "lost" childhood, as an incest victim, and the subsequent years of emotional turmoil, leading to recovery.[ 1]
Awards and honours
White Lies (for my mother) received the 1993 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ".[ 1] The book was also nominated for the 1992 "VanCity Book Award", and The Vancouver Sun 's 1992 listing as one of the "Six Best Books of the Year".[ 2]
See also
References
^ a b Faculty of Arts, 1993, Edna Staebler Award , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Liza Potvin. Retrieved 20 November 2012
^ VIU, Liza Potvin , Bibliography: Contents. Retrieved 20 November 2012
External links
VIU, Liza Potvin , biography. Retrieved 20 November 2012
1990s
Susan Mayse , Ginger (1991)
Marie Wadden , Nitassinan , (1992)
Liza Potvin , White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay , The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
Linda Johns , Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
Denise Chong , The Concubine's Children (1995)
George G. Blackburn , The Guns of Normandy (1996)
Anne Mullens , Timely Death (1997)
Charlotte Gray , Mrs. King (1998)
Michael Poole , Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
2000s
Wayson Choy , Paper Shadows (2000)
Taras Grescoe , Sacré Blues (2001)
Tom Allen , Rolling Home (2002)
Alison Watt , The Last Island (2003)
Andrea Curtis , Into the Blue (2004)
Anne Coleman , I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
Francis Chalifour , After (2006)
Linden MacIntyre , Causeway (2007)
Bruce Serafin , Stardust (2008)
Russell Wangersky , Burning Down the House (2009)
2010s
John Leigh Walters , A Very Capable Life (2010)
Helen Waldstein Wilkes , Letters from the Lost (2011)
Joshua Knelman , Hot Art (2012)
Carol Shaben , Into the Abyss (2013)
Arno Kopecky , The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
Lynn Thomson , Birding with Yeats (2015)
Ann Walmsley , The Prison Book Club (2016)
Sonja Larsen , Red Star Tattoo (2017)
Pauline Dakin , Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
2020s