The Mother Wound - Amani Haydar torrent

Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Language: English
Keywords: Australian domestic abuse Feminism Lebanese Women

Written by Amani Haydar
Read by Amani Haydar
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I am from a family of strong women.
Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devastating murder.
After her mother’s death, Amani began reassessing everything she knew of her parents’ relationship. They had been unhappy for so long - should she have known that it would end like this? A lawyer by profession, she also saw the holes in the justice system for addressing and combating emotional abuse and coercive control.
Amani also had to reckon with the weight of familial and cultural context. Her parents were brought together in an arranged marriage, her mother 13 years her father’s junior. Her grandmother was brutally killed in the 2006 war in Lebanon, adding complex layers of intergenerational trauma.
Writing with grace and beauty, Amani has drawn from this a story of female resilience and the role of motherhood in the home and in the world. In The Mother Wound, she uses her own strength to help other survivors find their voices.

Winner of the 2021 Sydney Music, Arts & Culture (SMAC) Awards

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2022

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards the Multiculteral Nsw Award 2022

Longlisted for the Walkley Book Award 2021

Shortlisted for the Abia Biography of the Year 2022

Shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2022