Jennie's boy : a misfit childhood on an island of eccentrics
(Book)

"Wayne Johnston's family--his mother, father, and three brothers--were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which Newfoundlanders are known. By that wit, and by their love for each other--so often expressed in the most unloving ways--he, and they, survived"--,Provided by publisher.