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A Very Capable Life
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
John Leigh Walters  

$24.95 Paperback
Release Date: 12/21/2009
ISBN: 978-1-897425-41-1    
208 Pages

Distributed for Athabasca University Press



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* Winner, 2010 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.

Zarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to find a new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a great imagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and young married woman. Zarah and her family lived through the Depression, and she learned to make ends meet in any way she could, even bending the law if necessary. Her son John writes this touching memoir, told in the first person, in Zarah’s own unique voice. Her remembrances are sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always entertaining.

About the Author(s)

John Leigh Walters has spent much of his life writing, producing, and hosting television programs in both Canada and the United States

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