Open AccessThe Braided River: Migration and the personal essay
Author(s) -
Lydia Wevers
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0ins31.6686
Subject(s) - crying , sound (geography) , table (database) , sitting , art , art history , visual arts , sociology , advertising , history , psychology , social psychology , acoustics , computer science , business , medicine , physics , pathology , data mining
One of my earliest memories is sitting at the table in our rented house in Masterton with Dad and my brothers and hearing our mother crying in the loo. It was an unusual and frightening sound which is why I remember it vividly 67 years later – also Dad had cooked dinner which wasn’t his forte.