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The Full Catastrophe

The Full Catastrophe - Paperback

by Méira Cook
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Availability:In StockContributor:Méira CookPublish date:2022-06-07Pages:348
Language:EnglishPublisher:House of Anansi PressISBN-13:9781487009946ISBN-10:1487009941UPC:9781487009946Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Jewish, Cultural HeritageSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC2NPVY6G9

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:House of Anansi PressISBN-13:9781487009946ISBN-10:1487009941UPC:9781487009946Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Jewish, Cultural HeritageSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC2NPVY6G9
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MÉIRA COOK is the award-winning author of the novels The House on Sugarbush Road, which won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and Nightwatching, which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She has also published five poetry collections, most recently Monologue Dogs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She has won the CBC Poetry Prize and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba's Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, and the Winnipeg Public Library. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, she now lives in Winnipeg.

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