Shorelines

A truly original take on migration, family and faith -- NOREEN MASUD, author of A FLAT PLACE
Shorelines is distinctly a prose work written by a poet; a text fascinated by the malleability of time and language, and the concrete possibilities of the page * * Skinny * *
An experimental approach to mapping a life on the page . . . Shorelines refuses fixed boundaries, offering instead a more realistic and interesting multiplicity of selves, homes, histories and truths * * Gutter * *
A book that earns its silences. Pirmohamed writes about belonging - in landscapes, in families, across borders - with a poet's precision and genuine emotional courage. Shorelines is formally original and deeply true -- FREYA BROMLEY, author of THE TIDAL YEAR
Thought-provoking * * Scotsman * *
Shorelines fell over me like a wave pools around a body in water. Tender and quietly incisive, Pirmohamed's poetic prose makes visible sensations, meanings and forgotten inheritances in the aches and unexpected joys of migration. Here is nature writing alive in its attention to movement, to loss and to the ethics that shape our encounters with the world and one another -- JESSICA J. LEE, author of TURNING and DISPERSALS
Expansive, genre-defying -- 'Books Spotlight: Scotland' * * Bookseller * *
An exquisite memoir that resists the demands of the genre . . . From Pirmohamed's withholding of details blooms a greater form of memoir - one that follows sensory experience, that is rooted more in greenness, in scents of pine, in the generosity of fog * * Skinny * *
An exquisite, immersive memoir of place and displacement, of caring and grieving and creativity, of selfhood and interconnectedness. Shorelines will transport you in its flow and hold you weightlessly in its lyric pools, in its reflections of the complexities of living a creative life, and finding a place in the tangled world. Beautiful, deep and shimmering with meaning, this is a book to dive into and soak in -- POLLY ATKIN, author of SOME OF US JUST FALL
Shorelines is written with such care and attention, deftly interweaving histories that are personal, colonial and natural into reflections on family, loss and the shape-shifting nature of who we were, are and will become. In Shorelines we see Pirmohamed's poetic sensibility applied to prose, and to ideas that connect us all -- AMANDA THOMSON, author of BELONGING