“I’m just sick of the boring narrative of people being humble about their roots. “Deep down I’m fond of the memories I made there,” Ryan writes. Catharines, but then they had a really nice summer and we won”).
It also contains a good-faith effort to mend a relationship of her own - with her hometown, which she often derided onstage (eg.: “We are the teen-cancer, teen-suicide and teen-pregnancy capital of Canada … we nearly lost teen suicide one year to St. “I think this book is a little bit of a love letter to Canada,” she said.Īs the title implies, the through-line is to encourage women, in particular, to believe that they mustn’t tolerate bad relationships and that they might be surprised at what doors sheer enterprise can open. fame and her Canadian life before that as a Hooters barmaid/Ryerson student, and before that her life as an attention-seeking schoolgirl in Sarnia. “The Audacity,” out this week, details Ryan’s rise to U.K. It’s a story that she elects to tells humorously, in other words, but it’s a long way from a farce. Her droll book has a tart, breezy tone, but it doesn’t skip over her parents’ unhappy marriage, her own abusive and doomed relationships, cosmetic surgery mishaps, miscarriages, disease and a youthful brush with homicide. Ryan herself doesn’t need to engage in such embellishments. A bad ex-boyfriend (there were several) long insisted that the theatre/discount retail titan had driven over his pet, before Ryan discovered her man’s knack for tall tales.
“And I believed the ‘Ed Mirvish killed my dog’ story for at least a decade,” the comic recalls on the phone from Britain. Standup comedian Katherine Ryan’s memoir will be taken up eagerly by her many fans in Britain, but if you’re a Torontonian of a certain vintage, the middle third of “The Audacity” has a surprising number of Easter eggs just for you.
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