The Full Catastrophe
Méira Cook
The Full Catastrophe is the story of Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, and his grandfather, Oscar, a ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor and Charlie’s best friend and confidante. Because the Nazis disrupted Oscar’s opportunity for a bar mitzvah, Charlie decides to right the historical wrong and arrange for a joint bar mitzvah for himself and his zeide.
Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the Orthodox Jewish father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his biological differences, Charlie navigates assorted catastrophes thanks to his grandfather’s love and the makeshift family who surround him: his mother’s best friend Weeza, a couple of elderly shut-in neighbours, a mysterious girl in his class who has dark secrets of her own, and his desperately needy and perpetually flatulent dog, Gellman.
The Full Catastrophe is a novel of psychological complexity, tenderness, humour, and community. It is about becoming men; a novel of secrets and the journeys these secrets propel.
Duration - 21h 57m.
Author - Méira Cook.
Narrator - Josh Bloomberg.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Meira Cook ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
The Full Catastrophe is the story of Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, and his grandfather, Oscar, a ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor and Charlie’s best friend and confidante. Because the Nazis disrupted Oscar’s opportunity for a bar mitzvah, Charlie decides to right the historical wrong and arrange for a joint bar mitzvah for himself and his zeide. Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the Orthodox Jewish father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his biological differences, Charlie navigates assorted catastrophes thanks to his grandfather’s love and the makeshift family who surround him: his mother’s best friend Weeza, a couple of elderly shut-in neighbours, a mysterious girl in his class who has dark secrets of her own, and his desperately needy and perpetually flatulent dog, Gellman. The Full Catastrophe is a novel of psychological complexity, tenderness, humour, and community. It is about becoming men; a novel of secrets and the journeys these secrets propel. Duration - 21h 57m. Author - Méira Cook. Narrator - Josh Bloomberg. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Meira Cook ©.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:00:13
Chapter 2
Duration:00:00:15
Chapter 3
Duration:00:06:49
Chapter 4
Duration:00:52:32
Chapter 5
Duration:00:40:02
Chapter 6
Duration:00:33:51
Chapter 7
Duration:00:49:01
Chapter 8
Duration:00:43:20
Chapter 9
Duration:00:41:57
Chapter 10
Duration:00:11:22
Chapter 11
Duration:00:38:08
Chapter 12
Duration:00:30:37
Chapter 13
Duration:00:25:52
Chapter 14
Duration:00:53:33
Chapter 15
Duration:01:14:23
Chapter 16
Duration:00:10:51
Chapter 17
Duration:00:50:45
Chapter 18
Duration:00:44:48
Chapter 19
Duration:00:00:39
Chapter 20
Duration:00:00:35