{"product_id":"the-book-of-malcolm-9781459749566","title":"The Book of Malcolm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA father reflects on the rich life of his son, who died suddenly at twenty-six after living with schizophrenia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fraser Sutherland and his wife found their son, Malcolm, dead in his bedroom in their house. He was twenty-six and had died from a seizure of unknown cause. Malcolm had been living with schizophrenia since the age of seventeen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFraser's respectful narration of Malcolm's life  his happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, his writings, his experiments with religious thought  is a master writer's attempt to give shape and dignity to his son's life, to memorialize it as more than an illness. And in writing about his son's life, Fraser creates his own self-effacing memoir  the memoir of a parent's resilience through years of stressful care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFraser Sutherland, one of Canada's finest poetry critics and essayists, died shortly after completing this bo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart elegy, part existential howl, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e is an investigation of a beloved child's life, of the moods and registers of his mental illness, and of the sometimes harrowing family moments. * from the Foreword by Carmine Starnino *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e makes the mundane moments of family and of lived, shared experience shine beautifully. That Sutherland loved his son, and that family is a complicated blessing, are made achingly clear. * Winnipeg Free Press *","brand":"Dundurn Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885722874199,"sku":"9781459749566","price":12.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781459749566.jpg?v=1722537464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-book-of-malcolm-9781459749566","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}