

The Full Catastrophe
A Novel
Author: Méira Cook
Narrator: Josh Bloomberg
Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks
Published: 08/16/2022
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Cultural Fiction
Synopsis
Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the Orthodox Jewish father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his biological differences, Charlie navigates assorted catastrophes thanks to his grandfather’s love and the makeshift family who surround him: his mother’s best friend Weeza, a couple of elderly shut-in neighbours, a mysterious girl in his class who has dark secrets of her own, and his desperately needy and perpetually flatulent dog, Gellman.
The Full Catastrophe is a novel of psychological complexity, tenderness, humour, and community. It is about becoming men; a novel of secrets and the journeys these secrets propel.