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

take risks

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

Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails

I’m embarrassed

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,