The Full Catastrophe - Brossura

Cook, Meira

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1487009941 ISBN 13: 9781487009946

Casa editrice: House of Anansi Pr, 2022

Riassunto

Winner, 2023 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

Finalist, 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and the journeys that secrets propel.

Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, would be happy to be left alone. Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his differences, Charlie navigates the assorted catastrophes of his life. He’s helped along by the love of his beloved grandfather, Oscar, and the makeshift family who surround him: his mother’s best friend; a couple of elderly shut-in neighbours; a mysterious girl in his class who has secrets of her own; and his desperately needy and perpetually hungry dog, Gellman.

When a school project leads him to discover that Oscar never had a bar mitzvah, Charlie decides to right the historical wrong and arrange a belated ceremony. But this quest will be more than he bargained for, and meanwhile everyone from his doctor to his Ancestry Studies teacher keeps insisting that Charlie needs to learn to tell his own story.

Margaret Laurence Award winner Méira Cook’s The Full Catastrophe is a story of psychological complexity, tenderness, and humour.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: House of Anansi Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487009941
• ISBN 13: 9781487009946
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 370
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile