Format:
Book
Title:
Son of a gun : a memoir / Justin St. Germain.
Author:
St. Germain, Justin.
Call Number:
364.152309 St.Germa
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House, c2013.
Description:
viii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St. Germain's death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother's life and death.
Subjects:
St. Germain, Justin.
St. Germain, Justin -- Family.
St. Germain, Debbie, -2001 -- Death and burial.
Murder -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Mothers -- Crimes against -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Mothers and sons -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- Biography.
Children of abused wives -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- Biography.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781400068623
1400068622