To Linger With You
A Memoir of Sunshine and Longing
by Donna Nebenzahl
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Pub Date Sep 15 2025 | Archive Date Aug 31 2025
Literary Press Group of Canada | Stonehewer Books
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Description
Donna Nebenzahl grew up in the 1950s amid a large, close-knit Portuguese family in the colony of British Guiana. Nurtured by her loving grandparents, she never inquired why her mother lived a continent away nor asked about her father’s early death. Nor did she know why, as a devout young Catholic, she had a Jewish family name. After the colony headed toward independence and she had moved to Canada, Nebenzahl began to explore the difficult issues that her family history raised. The answers emerge gradually in this luminous, compelling memoir that explores the aftermath of loss and the true meaning of home.
A Note From the Publisher
Donna Nebenzahl was a weekly columnist and feature writer at the Montreal Gazette and the editor of the Gazette’s quarterly Trends magazine. She was an adjunct professor of journalism at Concordia University. She now divides her time between Montreal and Nova Scotia.
Advance Praise
"In Donna Nebenzahl’s To Linger with You, a quest to fill a psychic void morphs into a rich family history replete with secrets and surprises. Nebenzahl’s sensuous appreciation of her tropical home in British Guiana is bulwarked by careful research and a clear eyed reckoning with the legacies of slavery and indentured servitude. To Linger with You speaks of, and to, the parts of our personal heritage that don’t seem to add up — and then suddenly do. This fascinating and carefully observed memoir deserves a wide readership." - Elaine Kalman Naves, author of Shoshanna’s Story and Journey to Vaja
"Donna Nebenzahl enjoyed an idyllic childhood in British Guiana, or so she thought. Her maternal grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles had enveloped her in love. All she lacked were parents. Her eventual need for the truth about the past led her to ask a few hard questions: Why did her father die young? Why did her mother abandon her? And just who were her father’s parents? Nebenzahl’s discovery of the answers turns this beautiful memoir from a nostalgic evocation of Caribbean privilege into something richer, deeper and more troubling." - Mark Abley, author of The Organist: Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind
"This is a gorgeous gift of a memoir. Donna Nebenzahl is one gifted and righteous keeper of her family stories, which are remembered and recounted here in cinematic detail. From her childhood in the home of her well-to-do grandparents, who came to what was then British Guiana from Portugal, to her life as an emigrant to Canada, Ms. Nebenzahl's family story is redolent with love and loss. To Linger With You can be read as a high praise song to one family and the Edenic landscape of the author's childhood home; but it is also a testament to the strength and resilience of immigrants, and a welcome and clear-eyed commentary on the many cultural influences that shaped the modern Caribbean." - Lorna Goodison, prize-winning author of From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
Marketing Plan
Launch in Montreal
Print and Digital Ad Campaign
Launch in Montreal
Print and Digital Ad Campaign
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781069236227 |
| PRICE | CA$25.95 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 246 |
