Penguin, Toronto, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14-100025-2.  Trade soft cover, 230 pages plus Acknowledgements.  Unread copy with remainder mark on bottom edge; pages tanning.  ‘Enter a week in the life of Saul St. Pierre.  On Monday morning, the eighteen-year-old will be kicked out of English class for airing his opinion about a school book ban.  On Monday evening, he will learn that his estranged mother, Helena St. Pierre, a famous folksinger who abandoned him in infancy, has committed suicide in Thailand. … In the course of a week, from the day Saul hears of her death until the day she is buried, the world will come calling on the suburban Vancouver home he longs to flee.  …  In that week, Saul will face the public obsession with his parents’ lives, and the private and far more complicated truth of his family’s past.  He will learn about the mysterious book at the heart of the controversy, a book that links his past and his present.’ (from front flap)