false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171036680m/83171.jpg 83171 2 <B>In the tradition of such quirky and smart coming-of-age memoirs as Augusten Burroughs's <I>Running with Scissors</I> and Haven Kimmel's <I>A Girl Named Zippy, America's Boy</I> is an arresting and funny tale of growing up different in America's heartland.</B> <BR><BR> Wade didn't quite fit in. While schoolmates had crewcuts and wore Wrangler jeans, Wade styled his hair in imitation of Robbie Benson circa <I>Ice Castles</I> and shopped in the Sears husky section. Wade's father insisted on calling everyone &#147;honey&#148;&#151;even male gas station attendants. His mother punctuated her conversations with &#147;WHAT?!&#148; and constantly answered herself as though she was being cross-examined. He goes to school with a pack of kids called goat ropers who make the boys from <I>Deliverance</I> look like honor students. And he both loved and hated his perfect older brother. <P> While other families traveled to Florida and Hawaii for vacation, Wade's family packed their clothes in garbage bags and drove to their log cabin on Sugar Creek in the Missouri Ozarks. And it is here that Wade found refuge from his everyday struggle to fit in&#151;until a sudden, terrible accident on the Fourth of July took his brother's life and changed everything. <P> Equally nostalgic, poignant, funny, and compelling, this is a story of what it is to be normal, what it means to fit in, and what it means to be yourself. 80303 6 4 2006 America's Boy: A Memoir total:94|5:24|4:29|3:29|2:9|1:3| 94 344 150 18 824563 0452288010 9780452288010 10 4 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178717229m/824563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824563.America_s_Boy 5 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 27 21:33:48 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:39:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 824563 0452288010 9780452288010 10 4 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178717229m/824563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824563.America_s_Boy 5 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 07:51:44 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 18:12:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 83171 0525949348 9780525949343 84 14 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171036680m/83171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83171.America_s_Boy_A_Memoir 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 28 09:20:29 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 19:07:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 83171 0525949348 9780525949343 84 14 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171036680m/83171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83171.America_s_Boy_A_Memoir 5 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:52:27 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:52:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 824563 0452288010 9780452288010 10 4 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178717229m/824563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824563.America_s_Boy 2 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 09:34:38 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 09:39:39 -0700 2008
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