Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston-Used Leah Fleming an urgent and lyrical novel

an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation

Except for the fact that a year ago

Unbeknownst to Cam and Jade

Seems simple enough

their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives

Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood by Wayne Johnston-Used Leah Fleming an urgent and lyrical novelNATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down,