** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ** The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who raised him A book to be relished by lovers of such works as The Glass Castle, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and Angela's Ashes Everything readers love about consummate storyteller and beloved bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston's work is on full display in Jennie’s Boy:… source
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“I was seven that November when we were tossed from our apartment in St. John's. I had lived in twenty houses by then. I don't remember a lot of them, but most of them were scattered along a couple of roads in a place called the Goulds, about an hour away from town.”
The memoir's opening locates its action in the Goulds; the same excerpt names Petty Harbour Road as the grandparents' address where the six-month story unfolds.
Wayne Johnston, Jennie's Boy, excerpt on CBC Books — source
