Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood
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, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neighbours, he was known as "Jennie's boy," a backhanded salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne's condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up. Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne's childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale.
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Johnston, Wayne > Childhood and youth. Authors > Newfoundland and Labrador > Biography. Goulds (N.L.) > Biography. |
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- ISBN: 9781039001664
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307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.