Scar Tissue: Tracing Motherhood

By Sara Danièle Michaud and Katia Grubisic

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
• Release date: Apr 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9781773901398

Sara Danièle Michaud

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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