![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will want to follow Cathy on her bizarre trips around Lewiston, New York, as she and Roy deliver sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe, sedatives to the violent Tuscarora Chief, Mad Bear, and fungus cream for Warty, the dump operator, to apply on the horrific lumps that cover her entire body. Roy, her friend and co-worker (a man of wonderful compassion and raw intellect), drove the delivery van and Cathy read (she had learned to do so very early on) the road maps that led them to each new adventure. When Gildiner, a Toronto psychologist and Chatelaine columnist, was four years old and full of pent-up energy, the town doctor prescribed a dose of what would be considered child labour today – full-time work at her father’s pharmacy in western New York state. ![]() There is only one problem with Catherine Gildiner’s memoir Too Close to the Falls: it is far too short, even at 350 pages. ![]()
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