{"title": "Childhood", "covers": [529821, 6805397, 580286, 14842260], "key": "/works/OL8445361W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL221881A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, general", "Ontario, fiction", "Trinidadians", "Fiction", "Families", "Black people"], "first_publish_date": "1998", "description": "Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.", "subject_places": ["Canada"], "lc_classifications": ["PR9199.3.A365 C45 1998"], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T22:48:07.622237"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-26T18:05:52.093674"}}