Childhood

"A meditation on the elusiveness of the past and humanity's yearning for emotional closure. Childhood is Andre Alexis's picaresque debut novel. It features Thomas Macmillan, a Canadian with ties to Trinidad, who pieces together--from memory and from related stories--the early years of his life. Raised in Petrolia, a small town in southern Ontario near the U.S. border, Thomas is abandoned by his mo...