The full catastrophe : a novel / Méira Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Méira, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage boys--Fiction.

Teenage boys.

Bar mitzvah--Fiction.

Bar mitzvah.

Grandfathers--Fiction.

Grandfathers.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Genre:

Jewish fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Physical Description:

370 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, ON] : Anansi, 2022.

Summary:

"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."-- Back cover.

Notes:

Remainder of title from cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Cook, Méira, 1964- Full catastrophe.

ISBN:

9781487009946

1487009941

OCLC:

1262119871