Mother's Genius
by Kristin Andrychuk
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Pub Date Oct 01 2019 | Archive Date Dec 10 2019
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Description
Set in the small town of Grenville, Ontario, a setting perhaps familiar to the reader from the author's previous novel Cadillac Road, this story progresses from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1940, five-year-old Martin Thorton fell from the family's apartment balcony, suffering catastrophic and permanent injuries. His accident plays a role in everything that happens afterwards -- his marginalization growing up a disabled person, his mother's guilt and unfailing devotion, his sister's alienation. Told from the point of view of his sister Gretchen, and his friend Donna, this is Martin's story.
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• Launches to take place in Toronto and Kingston.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771834247 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 347544
Poignant in some parts, full of humor in others, “Mother’s Genius”, by Kristin Andrychuk (Guernica Editions), had a slow beginning for me, but I was gradually pulled into it and intrigued with Martin’s sad story.
Martin is such a different, wounded hero, obsessed with Donna, blind in so many ways. Martin is a tragic male character, but also so self-centered and selfish. Watching the hero prematurely aging and its physical decadence is a realistic experience, sometimes hard to read.
I particularly enjoyed and found extremely well written the parts told from Donna’s point of view about handling domestic life, marriage and children, some of which were very funny and realistic.
I also liked the intertextuality with Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, Donna’s practical outlook on the iconic novel and Martin’s sedentary life and isolation contrasting with it.
