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Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and
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Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles Paperback - 2012

by Steve Burgess

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Memoir, biography, and outrageous comedy make for a perfect blend in the debut book from acclaimed writer Steve Burgess. Telling the tale of his mother's life and death, and along the way laying bare his own life and struggles, Burgess renders a memorable and deeply moving meditation on life and family.

The author's mother, Joan, barely survived her thirteenth birthday: a rare disorder had made it almost impossible for her to swallow food. Her battle to survive this illness was the first in a lifelong sequence of courageous confrontations with her upbringing. As she raised her five children, Joan revealed herself to be a strong and remarkably complex woman. This is her story, but it's also the story of her husband, a charming United Church minister, and their children-including the alarmingly delinquent Steve, who spent much of his adolescence and beyond dropping acid, drinking to excess, and getting in trouble with the law. Which leads him to wonder: was he responsible for his mother's ills and perhaps even her death?

Whether he's relating how an ice cream product saved him from a gruesome death on the Trans-Canada, or sizing up the rebranding efforts of a woeful Manitoba motel, or depicting daily life

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  • Title Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
  • Author Steve Burgess
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Publication date 2012-02
  • ISBN 9781553658337 / 1553658337
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.65 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Humor
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists - Canada, Broadcasters - Canada
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Steve Burgess is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Burgess' stories have been featured in Reader's Digest editions around the world, as well as Maclean's, the Globe & Mail, and other publications. Who Killed Mom? is his first book.

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Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
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Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles

by Burgess, Steve

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