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Perhaps more than any other relationship or identity, motherhood is both organic and constructed. Mothers are created by the existence of their children, and then simultaneously expanded and abbreviated by maternity as a social category, and by the impossible intimacy of this most primal human relationship. In Scar Tissue: Tracing Motherhood, Montreal writer and literary philosopher Sara Danièle Michaud brings her considerable intellectual scope to the question. Intense and intertextual?the book sips as easily from Saint Augustine as from Sheila Heti?this long essay is both deeply personal and eloquently universal.

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Sara Danièle Michaud holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the Université de Montréal, and did a postdoc at the University of Toronto on conversion narratives. Her research and publications have often looked at the notion of the sacred and the intersection of philosophy and literature. She currently teaches literature at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent. Cicatrices: Carnets de conversion, published by Nota Bene in 2022, is her third book and first one to be translated into English.

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