Like Every Form of Love: a memoir of friendship and true crime

Like Every Form of Love: a memoir of friendship and true crime - Paperback

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Like Every Form of Love: a memoir of friendship and true crime - Paperback

Like Every Form of Love: a memoir of friendship and true crime - Paperback

by Padma Viswanathan
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From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person-all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story.


Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life. But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his child-hood that kept them connected for more than twenty years.


Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named Harvey, a miner, farmer and communist. After Phillip's mother left the family, Harvey advertised for a housekeeper-with-benefits. And so Del, the most glamorous and loving of stepmothers, stepped into Phillip's life. Del had hung out with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Mexico City before the Cuban revolution; she was also a convicted bank robber who had violated her parole and was suspected in her ex-hus-band's murder. Phillip had long since lost track of Del, but when Padma said she'd like to write about her and about his own young life, he eagerly agreed. Quickly, though, Padma's research uncov-ered hidden truths about these larger-than-real-life characters.


In this unforgettable memoir, Padma reflects on the joys and frictions of this strange journey with grace, humour and poetry, including original readings of Hans Christian Andersen fairytales and other stories that beautifully echo her characters' adventures and her own. Like Every Form of Love is that rare thing: an irresistible literary page-turner that twists and turns, delivering powerful revelations, right to the very end.
ISBN9798989121441
Author Padma Viswanathan
Publisher7.13 Books
GenreBiography and Relationships
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages276
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography Family & Relationships Nonfiction True Crime

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Like Every Form of Love: a memoir of friendship and true crime - Paperback

By Padma Viswanathan

About Padma Viswanathan

Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American novelist and translator whose novels have been published in seven countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and others. Her most recent book is The Charterhouse of Padma, also published by Godine. Viswanathan's short fiction, essays and translations have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK, and elsewhere. Her full-length translations include São Bernardo, by Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, and Where We Stand by philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas--Fayetteville, where she is Founding Director of the Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Residency Program.

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