{"product_id":"9781761170041","title":"How to Knit a Human","description":"Author: Anna Jacobson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761170041\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NewSouth Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, The Jewish Independent Award for Young Jewish Writers**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Courier-Mail \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople's Choice Queensland Book of the YearAward**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it. I went mad. Why can't I have the secret knowledge that comes with it?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn't recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e is Anna's quest to find her self and her memory after experiencing psychosis and Electroconvulsive therapy in 2011, at the age of twenty-three. As the memory barriers begin to crumble, Anna weaves her experiences around the gaps of memories that are still not accessible. Anna writes and creates art on her own terms. This book is a reclamation of story and self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a precise and searching memoir that illuminates the fragile balance that can exist between memory and one's sense of self. The writing reflects superbly on the profound impact of memory loss caused by psychosis and its treatment, and shows us how storytelling can form part of healing through the sharing of experiences and a deeper understanding of them.' - Kri Gslason\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In this wise, wry and moving memoir Anna Jacobson reclaims her self from the institutions that sought to define her. As she asks vital questions about care, memory and inheritance, Jacobson reminds us of the recuperative joy of creative life.' - Mireille Juchau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book is a revelation. If Leonora Carrington teamed up with Janet Frame you might get something close to the kind, gentle, weird and brutal brilliance of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e. Anna Jacobson has shifted my perspective on art and illness. 100 stars. Bravo!' - Kris Kneen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis a visceral and immersive memoir  carefully crafted as well as genre-bending. Jacobson delves deep into her own unquiet mind only to emerge artistically victorious. A triumph.' - Lee Kofman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Blazing, incantatory and furious, this is a work of unshakeable witness. Jacobson sorts through the shapes and shades of memory, dropped stitches and invisible repairs, to forge a blazing work of consolation and recuperation, a paean to resilience and creativity.' - Felicity Plunkett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Anna Jacobson gives us a sheaf of home made X-rays that net interior light. Her ability to stand both inside and outside of memory as an encased form has allowed Anna a rare set of insights, something akin to planting seeds in the air, that initially subsist then quietly grow under the moisture in her own breath. As writer, artist and musician, it is fortunate that Anna has the intellectual, emotional, familial and spiritual machinery to approach memory (as itself and herself), in a way that she can watch the pieces of the existential jigsaw move inside the box without her even touching them.' - Nathan Shepherdson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a warmly engaging story that doesn't shy from the harsh realities, but weaves it all into a satisfying fabric...Jacobson writes and creates art to help herself heal, and with\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow To Knit A Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, she hopes to help others who struggle \"feel less alone\" with their experiences. With this work, I think she's achieved both.' -\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTasmanian Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's through her creative practice, through knitting together the threads of art and memory, that she is able to assert her lost autonomy - and to write this moving memoir.' - Catriona Menzies-Pike,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A concentrated, strikingly poetic portrait of someone descending into what she calls her \"madness\". For much of the book [Jacobson] employs the third person and refers to herself as \"she\", a distancing strategy that often chillingly accentuates the eerie, intensity of the experience. Like a kind of magic lantern show, Jacobson takes the reader inside the mind of the subject, to hauntingly powerful effect.' - Steven Carroll,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald \/ The Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Knit a Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis a meticulously constructed documentation of \"madness\", institutions and the reclamation of one's memories.' - Fiona Murphy,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852838195358,"sku":"ADS-9781761170041","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761170041.jpg?v=1779063346","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761170041","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}