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Childhood

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Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan …

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Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.

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"Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to …"

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