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      By Grady, Wayne
       c2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: QWF BLK Fic Gra    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is a novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change. With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's WWII, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and is desperate to see the world.
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      By Grady, Wayne
       2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and longs to see the world. They marry against Vivian's family's wishes—there's something about Jack that they just don't like—and as the war draws to a close, the couple travels to Windsor to meet Jack's family. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home Jack depicted, they all look different from one another—different from anyone Vivian has ever seen--and after weeks of waiting to meet Jack's father, he never materializes. Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is an arresting, heartwrenching novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change. - From Random House Publishing.
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      By Grady, Wayne
       2021., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Gra    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Vancouver and Toronto in the present day, 'The Good Father' comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception, and the price we pay for second chances. Grady lives in Kingston, ON. From the author of 'Emancipation Day' and 'Up From Freedom'. Book Club.
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      By Grady, Wayne
       2015., Memoire d'encrier Call No: FR QWF Fic Gra   Edition: ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: En 1945, Jack, issu d'une famille pauvre et noire de l'Ontario, arrive à se faire passer pour blanc. Débarqué à Terre-Neuve dans un contingent de la marine canadienne, il rencontre Vivian, qu'il séduit par ses talents de musicien. Celle-ci découvrira-t-elle sa véritable identité? Pendant combien de temps peut-on se fuir soi-même avant que le passé nous rattrape? Le jour de l'émancipation est un roman magistral qui aborde des thèmes profondément humains tels que les relations familiales, l'amour et le racisme à une époque où le Canada vit de grands changements à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.