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 Toronto Book Awards 2009 Get a New Read on Toronto
During the hazy summer of 1969, Charles Wilkins, then a student at the University of Toronto, took a job as a gravedigger. The bizarre-but-true events of that time, including a midsummer gravediggers' strike, the unearthing of an unsolved murder victim, and illegal bone-shifting, play out amongst a parade of mavericks and misfits in this hilarious memoir of the gradual coming-of-age of an impressionable young man. Charles Wilkins is the author of a dozen books, including Walk to New York, A Wilderness Called Home and The Circus at the Edge of the Earth, all of which were listed in The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books. He divides his time between Thunder Bay and the Muskoka region of Ontario.
Updated on: September 14, 2009
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