BOOKS - The Full Catastrophe: A Novel
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The Full Catastrophe: A Novel
Author: Meira Cook
Year: June 7, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.3 MB
Language: English
Year: June 7, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.3 MB
Language: English
Winner, 2023 Margaret Laurence Award for FictionFinalist, 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year AwardA 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 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 Meira Cook's The Full Catastrophe is a story of psychological complexity, tenderness, and humour.
