Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
Author: Steve Burgess
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Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
English
ISBN: 1553658345
EAN: 9781553658344
Category: Biography & Autobiography / General/Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers/
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date: 04/16/2011
Synopsis:
The author's mother, Joan, barely survived her thirteenth birthday: a rare disorder had made it almost impossible for her to swallow food. Her battle to survive this illness was the first in a lifelong sequence of courageous confrontations with her upbringing. As she raised her five children, Joan revealed herself to be a strong and remarkably complex woman. This is her story, but it's also the story of her husband, a charming United Church minister, and their children-including the alarmingly delinquent Steve, who spent much of his adolescence and beyond dropping acid, drinking to excess, and getting in trouble with the law. Which leads him to wonder: was he responsible for his mother's ills and perhaps even her death?
Whether he's relating how an ice cream product saved him from a gruesome death on the Trans-Canada, or sizing up the rebranding efforts of a woeful Manitoba motel, or depicting daily life
Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
Illustrated: No
Format: eBook - EPUB
Pages: 264
