Truth About Luck

What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation -- which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story.Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this delightful comic memoir reflects on family connections; how we experience adversity, the passage of time, and aging; and most importantly what it truly means to feel lucky.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-05-09
Mått:133 x 203 x 13 mm
Vikt:283 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
ISBN:9781770892415
Utmärkelser:Commended for Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2013 (Canada)

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Iain Reid is the author of the critically acclaimed comic memoir One Bird's Choice, which won the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.Follow Iain Reid on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/reid_iain

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A slyly entertaining encounter with the timeless. Is any divide greater than the one between young and old? How do we connect with those who, while still living, come from worlds that are gone? Iain Reid urgently needs to solve this issue, even as he resists that confrontation with all his might. The result is at times soothing, at times disquieting, and persistently likable throughout.