From a Giller-nominated, multiple award-winner, here is a tender, wry and unforgettable memoir of all the things fathers and sons fail to say to each other, for readers of Plum Johnson's They Left Us Everything, David Adams Richards's Lines on the Water, and Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.
BILL GASTON is the author of seven novels and six collections of short fiction. He teaches at the University of Victoria and is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2003 inaugural Timothy Findley Lifetime Achievement Award and the CBC/Canadian Literary Award. Mount Appetite, one of his collections of short stories, was shortlisted for the 2002 Giller Prize, and another, Gargoyles, was shortlisted for the 2006 Governor General's Award for Fiction. His most recent novel, The World, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. He lives in Victoria, BC.
Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans
Non-Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown
Regional Prize
"Under Gaston’s quiet prose lies an ocean of pain and hard truths.
Unsentimental and yet deeply poignant, his memoir will resonate
with anyone who wanted more from a father than he could give."
—Trevor Cole
"This book isn't just for fathers, sons or those who fish...as a
mother and daughter who does not fish, I nonetheless related to
Bill's longing to understand the person who had raised him and
helped shape his world view. A beautifully written memoir about the
complex layers that exist between parent and child and the drive to
find peace with our childhood ghosts." —Cea Sunrise Person, author
of North of Normal
“I was heartbroken in the first five pages. Bill Gaston kicks and
punches holes in the walls of time and recounts the battle between
father and son, a battle that defines us whether we like it or not.
For everyone who fights ghosts and knows they're never going to
win, but keeps trying.” —Tom Wilson, author of Beautiful Scars
“Bill Gaston’s unflinching courage shines through in his latest
memoir, planting him firmly alongside other such top-shelf soul
searchers as Mary Karr, David Adams Richards and Nick Flynn.
Heartbreaking, hilarious and admittedly haunting, Just Let Me Look
at You is a timely and timeless reclamation story, poignant and
auspicious, written with heart.” —Joel Thomas Hynes, author of
We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
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