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Silence and Seizure

Name: Silence and Seizure
Brand: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781771127332
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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781771127332

Parenting Through Complexity

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By Christine Stewart-Nunez
Imprint: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2026
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 203 x 133 mm
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Silence and Seizure is a memoir about raising a son with a rare epilepsy syndrome-about the fear of seizures and the fear of unknown futures. The story starts when Christine Stewart-Nunez's plan for a stable life disintegrates. She chases a diagnosis for her son Holden's odd behavior and lapses in language, and she watches her marriage to Holden's father end, understanding these changes through the lens of illness and its silences. Seizing in ditches, apple-picking, appetizing shards of glass, a Picasso at the Tate, midnight ambulances, panic attacks at 37,000 feet, and mini-ninjas. Epilepsy impaired Holden, but for a time, Christine's lack of knowledge created a barrier that disabled him. As she learns to be an advocate, her parenting process begins to parallel her artistic practice: observe, research, reflect, create, revise. With the wisdom of disabled writers serving as touchstones for reflection, Silence and Seizure captures how the lens of disability helped Christine frame the nuances of her experience as she developed tactics for living a more complex life where both mother and son can flourish.

Christine Stewart-Nun?ez lives in Winnipeg and is the author of Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place (2022) and The Poet & The Architect (2021). She is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Women's & Gender Studies and Disability Studies.

Preface. Inter: prefix noting between Prologue. Intersection: a cutting between Chapter One. Interrupted: a process stopped Chapter Two. Intercept: to seize en route Chapter Three. Intertwined: twisted together? Chapter Four. Interfere: to intervene without invitation Chapter Five. Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict Chapter Six. Intermittent: stopping unpredictably Chapter Seven. Internal: situated on the inside Chapter Eight. Intercourse: exchange, communion, connection Chapter Nine. Interlocution: to speak between Chapter Ten. Interictal: occurring between seizures Chapter Eleven. Interstitial: a narrow opening Chapter Twelve. Internalize: to incorporate within oneself Chapter Thirteen. Interface: a point of meeting Chapter Fourteen. Interdependent: mutually dependent Epilogue. Interlucent: shining in the midst of other things Acknowledgements

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