{"product_id":"his-whole-lifebooks","title":"His Whole Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2016 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the #1 nationally bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e Late Nights on Air\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlone in the Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e, comes an irresistible new novel that has everything we would hope for from this celebrated author -- and more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e     Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, \u003ci\u003eHis Whole Life\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.\u003cbr\u003e     At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of his youth. Moving from city to country, summer to winter, wellbeing to illness, the novel charts the deepening bond between mother and son even as the family comes apart.\u003cbr\u003e     Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story as only Elizabeth Hay could tell it. It draws readers in with its warmth, wisdom, its vivid sense of place, its searching honesty, and nuanced portrait of the lives of one family and those closest to it. Hay explores the mystery of how members of a family can hurt each other so deeply, and remember those hurts in such detail, yet find openings that shock them with love and forgiveness. This is vintage Elizabeth Hay at the height of her powers.","brand":"Hay, Elizabeth","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44461561839840,"sku":"","price":19.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47084832686304,"sku":"","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a4f43acd-292e-466a-a240-977d2aee3acc.jpg?v=1702062710","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/his-whole-lifebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}