{"product_id":"9781554586691","title":"The Queen of Peace Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of Peace Room\u003c\/i\u003e, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer — and frees herself from the memories of her violent past. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature’s images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of Peace Room\u003c\/i\u003e, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166423138544,"sku":"9781554586691","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554586691_p0.jpg?v=1763758364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554586691","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}