Pat Capponi (1949–2020)
Autor de Last Stop Sunnyside
Series
Obras de Pat Capponi
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Capponi, Pat
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2020
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Organizaciones
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, board member
- Premios y honores
- Order of Ontario
C. M. Hincks Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association - Biografía breve
- Pat Capponi (born 1949) is a Canadian author and an advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues in Canada. She lives in Toronto. Her works include several nonfiction titles including the subversive debut Upstairs in the Crazy House, a personal account of her struggle with mental illness and a mystery novel series.
She has also served as a board member at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and as a member of the Advocacy Commission in Ontario.
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 125
- Popularidad
- #160,151
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 15
In the first book of the series, Last Stop Sunnyside, Dana Leoni and a diverse group of people living in a rooming house decide to investigate the death of a friend. After successfully concluding that endeavour Dana decides to set herself up as a private investigator with the rest of the rooming house crew as her assistants. For a while the only cases that come their way are non-paying but then an old friend of Dana's asks her to investigate his mother's odd behaviour. Mrs. Preston was recovering from a broken hip at a posh retirement home when she abruptly moved out and went back to her Rosedale mansion. She has refused to let her son visit and now the bank manager has confided that she has been writing large cheques to cash and draining her bank accounts. A friend from the retirement home tells Dana he saw a man and a woman visit Mrs. Preston and immediately after she moved out. From the description Dana thinks that Mrs. Preston must know them from the homeless shelter that is operated out of her church where she was a dedicated volunteer. Dana goes undercover to check out the shelter and gets more than she bargained for. Good thing that the group from the rooming house are watching her back.
Anyone familiar with Toronto will recognize lots of the places mentioned in this book and that's always fun. The depiction of the homeless moving from shelter to drop-in to meal programs isn't fun but it does seem true.… (más)