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When Gregory Gallant was young, his father would tell him stories about growing up poor on Prince Edward Island in the 1920s and '30s.
"My father enjoyed telling me these stories and I always enjoyed hearing them," he writes in the foreword to this remarkable volume. Gregory subsequently changed his name to "Seth" and has become a prize-winning cartoonist and illustrator. Having encouraged his father to put his boyhood tales down on paper, Seth spent the past decade editing them and fashioning delicate sketches to accompany his father's terse, yet poignant prose.
As Seth admits, his father's short stories revolve around "shame and food." Their family was so destitute that John Gallant could go to school only "if I had the clothes, and if I wasn't working in the lobster factory, and if I wasn't picking potatoes." the full text is available on the D&Q site
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