The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

Download or read book The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke written by Steven Hayward and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke is a hilarious and memorable first novel about youth and passion, family and community, miracles and violence and baseball. This moving love story, also a richly imagined chapter of Toronto history, begins on a summer afternoon in 1933, when Lucio Burke knocks a great ungainly bird out of the Toronto sky with a single perfect throw of a baseball. Thus it is that Lucio, a careful seventeen-year-old whose father died the night he was born, is drawn out of himself and into a complicated world.