Thin Ice: Coming Of Age In Canada

Bruce McCall, one of America's leading comic artists and writers, grew up in Southern Ontario, crammed into shabby quarters with five siblings, a father angry when he wasn't absent and a mother who used alcohol as a refuge from the poverty that surrounded her. This book recounts the author's setbacks, sometimes as high comedy, sometimes as pure agony, and shows how he transcended them. In this hilarious memoir, a remarkable humorist recounts a story of adversity