From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person-all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story.
Like Every Form of Love is that rare thing: an irresistible literary page-turner that twists and turns, delivering powerful revelations, right to the very end..
In this unforgettable memoir, Padma reflects on the joys and frictions of this strange journey with grace, humour and poetry, including original readings of Hans Christian Andersen fairytales and other stories that beautifully echo her characters\' adventures and her own.
Quickly, though, Padma\'s research uncov-ered hidden truths about these larger-than-real-life characters.
Phillip had long since lost track of Del, but when Padma said she\'d Like to write about her and about his own young life, he eagerly agreed.
Del had hung out with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Mexico City before the Cuban revolution; she was also a convicted bank robber who had violated her parole and was suspected in her ex-hus-band\'s murder.
And so Del, the most glamorous and loving of stepmothers, stepped into Phillip\'s life.
After Phillip\'s mother left the family, Harvey advertised for a housekeeper-with-benefits.
Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named Harvey, a miner, farmer and communist.
But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his child-hood that kept them connected for more than twenty years.
Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life.
Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip.
From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person-all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story
