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Length2h 8m
About this audiobook
Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight,
Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home.
Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (652)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byKaren Jewels
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 1, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
8Notices
2Prologue
9Epilogue
3Part 1
10Endnotes
4Witness
11Acknowledgments
5Cracks
12Aboutauthor
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6Part 2
13Credits
7Mirrortalk
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