{"product_id":"book-ggvx","title":"Fishing With Tardelli","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFishing With Tardelli\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner’s internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with an older man’s recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-’40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-’50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late ’60s and early ’70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49362358370608,"sku":"BDggvx","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/267042-ggvx-Square.jpg?v=1734508856","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ggvx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}