"I wanted my writing to offer an account of what it was like to take care of my mother, the details of that experience, the feelings, the lived experience. Women often do work like this that is unacknowledged, unseen. So, I guess I wanted to make it visible – not just my work, but this kind of work of taking care of elderly parents, of a child."
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"Inter-review with Colleen Higgs about her memoir, My mother, my madness" in litnet Janet van Eeden, Colleen Higgs (13 November 2020)
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