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Chosen as a World 100 Best Reserve of the entire year in 2011! One of Canada's funniest authors tackles his mother's life and death in a deep, entertaining storyline. Memoir, biography, and outrageous comedy lead to a perfect blend in the debut e book from acclaimed copy writer Steve Burgess. Informing the story of his mother's life and death, and along the way laying bare his own struggles, Burgess gives a moving meditation on life and family. The author's mom, Joan, scarcely survived her 13th birthday: A uncommon disorder had made it almost impossible on her behalf to swallow food. Her fight to make it through this disorder was the first in a lifelong have a problem with the demons of her upbringing. As she elevated her five children, of whom the author is the youngest, Joan uncovered herself to be always a strong and extremely complex woman. This is the storyline of her family: Joan herself, her hubby - a charming United Chapel minister - and their children, like the alarmingly delinquent Steve. Who Killed Mommy? brims with uproarious anecdotes and one-liners. Whether he's relating how an snow cream product preserved him from a gruesome death on the Trans-Canada, sizing up the rebranding efforts of a woeful Manitoba motel, or depicting lifestyle in a retirement life community, Burgess infuses his tales with a great deal of laughs. But beneath the book's hilarity is a penetrating examination of eternal designs: family, mortality, fate, and the long lasting value of love.
