Son of a Gun : A Memoir (Paperback)

from bnbookgirl

A combination memoir, history, and true crime book.  Justin loses his mother to murder at the hands of his step father.  Justin goes on a quest to find out what happened.  The historical part comes in because the book takes place near Tombstone.  The story of Earp and the OK Corral are intertwine...

from sarahlizfits

I really enjoyed this memoir. I enjoyed the way he paralleled things in his life to the Old West stories surrounding Tombstone and Wyatt Earp's life. I grew up not far from Dodge City, so I enjoyed how he was able to take parts of his life and show how they played to the larger-than-life stories ...

from heidicbritton

Justin St. Germain's mother was murdered by her 5th husband. At the most basic level, Son of a Gun is a memoir - the author's retelling of the true life events before and after his mother's mother. However, to describe this book as just a "memoir" doesn't seem fair to me. It's also (in my opinion...

from mossagate

I got this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I don't want to say I enjoyed this book because that seems akin to saying I enjoy reading about the pain of loss but this was very well written and the juxtaposition of Tombstone and all that implies was quite interesting. The author tries to ...

from bobbieharv

For some reason I kept forgetting this was a memoir - maybe because it read more like a novel; maybe because, even though the subject was the murder of the author's mother by his stepfather, Germain felt oddly distant. It was an interesting read, although the back details about Tombstone and Wyat...