A fusion of biography and history, art and politics, told through the
lives branching off one family tree.
In Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré brings together thirteen stories of
moments that have marked the dark intersections within her own history.
A feminist mother who fled Estonia. A father who arrived in Canada with
nothing but a violin. A Catalan boy whose parent is dying. A love
triangle among novelists. Bodies stolen in the night and never found.
Blending essay, memoir, and fiction, the Montréal author draws on her
encounters in Latin America and elsewhere to compose loving and
conflicted portraits--of family members, writers, filmmakers, and
gravediggers--culminating in the persistent legacies and strange
alchemies that haunt the person she sees in the mirror. In this
masterful fifth book, Siré has written her most urgent, beguiling, and
personal work to date.