"Wayne Johnston's family--his mother, father, and three brothers--were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie wasfrom: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which...