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Country Canada Pages 197 pp. Subject Immigration | 4.3/5 Goodreads Publication date January 1, 2010 Originally published 1 January 2010 ISBN 9781897425411 Genres Non-fiction, Memoir | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Publisher Athabasca University Press Similar Nahanni Remembered, Stardust, The Molly Fire, Baptism of Fire: The Second B, Sharing a Robin's Life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri is a non-fiction memoir of his mother by the Canadian television host Johnnie Walters, written under his real name John Leigh Walters and published in January 2010 by Athabasca University Press. It re-tells the stories his mother described to him regarding her immigration to Canada in the 1920s. Walters gives his first person account using humor, and intrigue, to share his mother's expressed regards about her depression era experiences.
Awards and honours
A Very Capable Life won the 2010 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".
References
A Very Capable Life Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA