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

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Growing Writer Prize

Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize

Shortlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

A hilarious story of family, engaging in trouble, and finding one’s place in the world

What could possibly be better than developing up in the 1980s? Think about developing up in 1980s Newfoundland, which–as Tag Critch will inform you–was more like the 1960s..Read 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 about 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 the fourth-floor window ledge, faking an asthma strike to avoid being arrested by military 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 Has 22 Minutes, Mark Critch offers photo-bombed Justin Trudeau, interviewed Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle (even though impersonating Alan Doyle), offered Pamela Anderson a mil dollars to stop performing, and crashed White colored Home briefings. But, even as we see within this lively debut, he’s been leading to trouble his very existence.

Son of the Critch captures the sweetness and cluelessness of a kid trying to find issues out, but with the clever observations of a grown-up, and the mixture is perfect.