Childhood

Description:

Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.

subjects: Fiction, general,  Ontario, fiction,  Trinidadians,  Fiction,  Families,  Black people

Places: Canada