Jennie's Boy
A Newfoundland Childhood
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Narrateur(s):
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Wayne Johnston
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Wayne Johnston
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC
WINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025
Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.
For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neighbours, he was known as “Jennie’s boy,” a backhanded salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne’s condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up.
Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne’s childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale.
Jennie’s Boy is Wayne’s tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit. By that wit, and through love—often expressed in the most unloving ways—Wayne survived.
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WINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
NAMED A BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025
"Stunning. . . . A compressed, restrained account of a life lived on the edge, not only in poverty, but at the cusp of mortality. . . . Never overblown or sentimental, Jennie’s Boy is as vivid as one’s own memories, a glimpse into a past of pain and wonder, of loss and joy.” —Toronto Star
"Johnston recounts his childhood with affection and humor. . . . A tender memoir." —Kirkus Reviews
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Roberta W
- 2025-03-15
Good
I picked this book as it was a Canada Reads finalist. A well told story of growing up as a poor and unwell boy in Newfoundland. As that’s not my experience, it was quite moving and enlightening. There was no big apex in the story, and I guess I was waiting for it… but a life is a life and I was glad of the chance to hear it. The author narrated his own book, so while I found it a bit flat, I always prefer to hear the author’s voice, over a guest. So, well done.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-07-17
Wonderful!
This was a bookclub pick, and I ended up loving it. I’m now telling everyone else to read it!!
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2023-10-10
Wow! What a story.
This book made me laugh, cringe and cry. I loved it!
I am so glad Wayne Johnston survived his childhood.
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- Patricia
- 2022-10-12
It made me laugh and cry.
Absolutely loved it! Wayne it shows how strong you were to overcome it all! You could of succumbed to all the negative but saw the good in there and came out amazing!
Very happy that you narrated the story as you are a calm speaker which made it better then if someone else narrated it and had put inflections. Your calmness made me feel your side of the events in your eye's.
Absolutely wonderful writing, as always. I am never disappointed!
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