Ian Brown wins trio of literary awards

The Boy in the Moon, a personal tale about life with a disabled son
written by Toronto writer Ian Brown, has won a trio of literary awards.

Read the book online (or listen to Brown’s audio version).

Brown has been awarded the $20,000 Trillium Award, the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the $40,000 B.C. Book Prize.

CBC reports:

“The moving story of Brown’s 13-year-old son, Walker, born with the genetic condition cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, has already taken the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the $40,000 B.C. Book Prize.

“In an interview with CBC’s The National earlier this year, Brown described his son as having a life of “huge challenges and small triumphs.”

“If Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?” Brown said, reading from the book. “All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head, in his jumped-up heart. But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.”