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.