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In *The Queen of Peace Room*, Magie Dominic chronicles her life as a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, artist and writer. Over an eight‑day retreat with Catholic nuns, she unearths fifty years of violent memories—incest, rape, and the devastating loss of friends to AIDS—while weaving them into a tapestry of vivid images. The room she occupies during the retreat, aptly named The Queen of Peace Room, becomes a sanctuary where she confronts violence against women from the 1940s‑1960s and examines the intersection of nature, storms, and the human psyche. Through a deeply personal lens, Dominic explores how trauma is stored in the body, how memories shape identity, and how art can offer a path to healing and remembrance.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Magie Dominic
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