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By Jane Speedy

Acclaimed qualitative student Jane Speedy’s global was once upended thoroughly after ache a critical stroke whilst basically in her past due 50s. After returning domestic from the health facility, fast took to her iPad to jot down and draw as a fashion of constructing experience of her adventure and to assist her restoration. the beautiful, fragmented, poetic textual content and pictures comprising observing the Park depict the occasions of this tough trip. It presents an alternate version of attractive the self in a learn venture in an evocative and inventive means. This hugely unique e-book: -uses the doubtless traditional motif of the park contrary the author’s condo because the catalyst for a wildly artistic autoethnography;-includes 3 narratives of the author’s event of gazing the park—an imagined homicide secret within the park, a realist ethnography of the park, and the lifestyles tale (both imagined and actual) of her dealing with her affliction and restoration; -offers readers a poetic and performative inquiry into the author’s new reality.

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