165 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Summary
in'A circle around my grandmother' Thomas Shapcott charts life via the geography of the body , it's delicacy and disintegration. An unexpected "initiation into the world of tubes and needles" is the point of origin of Sharpcott'e travail, the work of negotiating the detritus of memory, confronting the mystery of the body, and accepting the happenstance of ancestry
