A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and the journeys that secrets propel.
Margaret Laurence Award winner Méira Cook\'s The Full Catastrophe is a story of psychological complexity, tenderness, and humour..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, would be happy to be left alone.
A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and the journeys that secrets propel
