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A “poignant but rigorously unsentimental” memoir of one man's search for the truth about his father's dark past, and how it shaped his own life (Kirkus Reviews).Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health food and the otherworldly.Assigned to complete a family tree in school, Deni begins to wonder why he doesn't know more about his father's side of the family. His mother is from Pittsburgh, and there's a vague sense that his father is from Quebec, but why the mystery? When his mother leaves Deni's father and decamps with her children to Virginia, his curiosity only grows. Who is this man, why do the police seem so interested in him, and why is his mother so afraid of him? And when his mother begrudgingly tells Deni that his father was once a bank robber, his imagination is set on fire. Boyish rebelliousness soon gives way to fantasies of a life of crime, and a deep drive for experience leads him to a number of adventures: hitching to Memphis and stealing a

Author

Deni Ellis Béchard

Publisher

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571318626

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14