Deni Ellis Béchard
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A "poignant but rigorously unsentimental" memoir of one man's search for the truth about his father's dark past, and how it shaped his own life (Kirkus Reviews).
Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health...
Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first time I met my half-brother I was seventeen and he was fourteen. When I arrived at the airport in Virginia and saw the hale blue-jeaned boy and his mother, as thin and erratic as the menthol 100 she soon lit up, I knew I should have left my schoolwork behind. The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral. Andrew has little interest in the father with whom he grew up, but Hugh, who looks like a country-rock...