They left us everything: a memoir
Award winning non-fiction, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio
Summary
After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family… home. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Award. Winner of the 2016 Evergreen Award. Bestseller. 2014.