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Up Next Book #24:
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
by Wayne Johnston
Reading period - March 15 - May
About the book
Jennie’s Boy by Wayne Johnston is a memoir that offers an intimate glimpse into six months of Johnston’s childhood in Newfoundland, marked by resilience, humour, and the profound bond within his family, particularly with his mother, Jennie. Covering a period of hardship, constant movement due to housing issues, and a life lived on the edge of poverty, Johnston paints a portrait of a family’s determination and the community that both supported and challenged them.
About the Author 
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing.
En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, published when he was 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. The Divine Ryans was adapted to a film, for which Wayne wrote the screenplay. Baltimore's Mansion, a memoire dealing with his grandfather, his father and Wayne himself, won the Charles Taylor Prize. Both The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York were on bestseller lists in Canada and have been published in the US, Britain, Germany, Holland, China and Spain. Colony was identified by the Globe and Mail newspaper as one of the 100 most important Canadian books ever produced.
Reading Schedule
- On March 15th, visit Before the Book in our forum and begin reading Jennie’s Boy
- By March 29th, finish reading through Chapter 5
- By April 5th, finish reading through Chapter 9
- By April 12th, finish reading through Chapter 15
- By April 26th, finish reading through Chapter 21
- By May 3rd, finish reading the book and join our After the Book forum discussion.
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