But we fear using unconventional methods of measuring because once you decide how you’re going to measure and value Walker’s life, you have to measure your own: ‘Now that I’m using this gauge, what does it say about my life? How do I define my sense of happiness?’”ĭon’t miss this heart-wrenching performance beginning May 9 at Streetcar Crowsnest Guloien Theatre (345 Carlaw). But who’s to say that someone who doesn’t fulfill our definition of completeness is incomplete? Maybe we need to use a different measurement. In Walker’s case, it meant he would never talk or develop intellectually beyond the abilities of a toddler, and it would challenge every understanding the family had about what it meant to know one’s child.Įmil Sher, who adapted the book for the theatre, noted, “We tend to dismiss or devalue children like Walker as incomplete. It’s based on Brown’s memoir of raising his son, Walker, who was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder called cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome. Ian Brown, a reporter for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, has taken up a room-clearing subject - a child who hits himself incessantly, who wails, who can't talk - and delivered an unforgettable book. This harrowing question is at the centre of The Boy in The Moon, based on the award-winning book by Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown. When he isn't writing, he loves to read, look at paintings and ski in the back-country.It’s the sort of thing that’s always in the back of your mind as an expecting parent.
Ian lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer and journalist Johanna Schneller they have two children. His radio work is also extensive, as a contributor to This American Life and Morningside, and as host of no fewer than three CBC radio programs: Later the Same Day, Talking Books and Sunday Morning. Ian has written award-winning articles on subjects as complex, various and hilarious as thoroughbred horse-racing, medical statistics, wedding customs, the science of housekeeping, high school life, back-country skiing, addiction and Canada's family business dynasties. It has been published in seven languages.Īnother three-part series, Saving Hope, about the inside life of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, was later used as a source document in the creation of the North American TV series of the same name. His three-part series about his disabled son was among the first multi-part multi-media stories published in The Globe and Mail, and went on to become a multiple-award winning book, The Boy in the Moon, which The New York Times judged one of the 10 best books of 2011. Moving to Los Angeles, he wrote about golf, surfing and American culture. Based on Canadian journalist Ian Browns memoir of life with his son, The Boy in the Moon tells a deeply moving story about a familys struggle to raise a.
He began his professional life at The Financial Post, writing about real estate, corporate intrigue and Ontario politics. Ian Brown writes immersive, deeply reported, narratively-driven feature stories about a wide variety of subjects.
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