When a son cuts into his father's last suit he begins a search for identity, memory and reconciliation. Combining personal memoir with social history, the narrative follows one man's attempt to understand a complicated parent and his own past.

Spending a year apprenticing at a Vancouver tailor shop under an elderly master tailor, the author learns the practical skills of bespoke tailoring and the deeper lessons sewn into the craft. Threads of family, forgiveness and generational change are woven alongside reflections on the suit as a symbol of masculinity and social life.

Award recognition: finalist for major Canadian literary non-fiction prizes. Readers interested in family memoirs, craft histories and literary non-fiction will find a quietly observant, witty account of becoming oneself.

• Themes: family, identity, craft
• Settings: Montreal, Vancouver

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