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Can I read One Brother Shy : a Novel on EtoBox?
One Brother Shy : a Novel by Terry Fallis is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is One Brother Shy : a Novel about?
From the two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and author of The Best Laid Plans , comes a new story about a man tormented by an event from his youth, and the journey he finds himself on to heal and to learn who he is. Few people know the real Alex MacAskill. Most of the world sees a painfully and chronically shy software engineer in his mid-20s, soft-spoken, a bit of a loner, and someone easy to escape notice wherever possibleand thats just the way Alex wants it. Because no matter how many years have passed, the incident known only as Gabriel in the MacAskill family is something that still haunts him. But when his mother, one of the only people in the world who Alex felt comfortable as himself around, dies after a long illness, he suddenly has no choice but to face the very thing that hes been avoiding since that night in high school. In an instant, Alex finds himself trying to piece together the mystery of his identity, and on a search for parts of his family he never knew existeda search that takes him from Ottawa to London to Moscow, encountering along the way the KGB, painful memories from his past, and even the 1972 Russian hockey teama search that ultimat
Who reads One Brother Shy : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Terry Fallis
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780771050725
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (416 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14