Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir Audiobook (Free)

Winner of the 2019 Margaret and John Savage First Book Honor – nonfiction

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Rising Writer Prize

Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize

Shortlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

A hilarious tale of family, getting into trouble, and finding one’s put in place the world

What could be better than growing up in the 1980s? Think about growing up in 1980s Newfoundland, which–as Tag Critch will tell you–was more like the 1960s..READING MORE about Son of the Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir Take a trip to where it all began with this funny and warm appear back in his formative years.

Here we look for a young Mark trick-or-treating at a car or truck lot, getting locked away of school on a fourth-floor window ledge, faking an asthma strike in order to avoid being arrested simply by army police, trying to buy beer from an untrustworthy cab driver, shocking his parents by appearing naked onstage–and much more.

Best known while the ‘roving reporter’ for CBC’s This Hour Offers 22 Minutes, Mark Critch offers photo-bombed Justin Trudeau, interviewed Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle (while impersonating Alan Doyle), offered Pamela Anderson a million dollars to avoid acting, and crashed Light House briefings. But, as we see in this playful debut, he’s been leading to trouble his very existence.

Son of a Critch captures the sweetness and cluelessness of a youngster trying to figure items out, but using the clever observations of an adult, and the mixture is perfect.