Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon, and television has only just arrived.

At the tender age of four, Cathy accompanies Roy, the deliveryman at her father's pharmacy, on his routes. She shares some of their memorable deliveries-sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe (in town filming Niagara), sedatives to Mad Bear, a violent Tuscarora chief, and fungus cream to Warty, the gentle operator of the town dump. As she reaches her teenage years, Cathy's irrepressible spirit spurs her from dangerous sled rides that take her "too close to the Falls" to tipsy dances with the town priest.

Author: Catherine Gildiner
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/26/2002
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.34h x 5.48w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780142000403
ISBN10: 014200040X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | School Age

About the Author
Catherine Gildiner has been in private practice in clinical psychology for nearly twenty years. She writes a monthly advice column for Chatelaine, a popular Canadian magazine, and contributes regularly to countless other Canadian newspapers and magazines. She lives in Toronto with her husband and three sons.