Cures for Hunger [Paperback]

Growing up in British Columbia, Deni Ellis B?chard believes his charismatic father is infallible. Wild, unpredictable, even dangerous, Andr? is worshipped by his son, who believes that his father can do no wrong.

But when Denis mother leaves his father and decamps with her three children to Virginia, the boy learns of his fathers true identity. Andr? B?chard was once a bank robberand so Denis imagination is set on fire. Boyish rebelliousness gives way to fantasies of a life of crime. Only when he goes off to college, however, does Deni begin to unravel the story of his fathers life, eventually finding the Quebecois family that Andr? left behind long ago.

At once an extraordinary family story and a highly unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man,Cures for Hungeris a deeply affecting memoir by one of the most acclaimed young writers in the world today.

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Deni Ellis B?chardis the author of the novelsInto the SunandVandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book;Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the 2015 Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; andCures for Hunger. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including theLA Times,Salon,Pacific Standard, andForeign Policy, and he has reported from India, Iraq, Colombia, Rwanda, the Congo, and Afghanistan. He lives in New York.

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