Haven Kimmel has perfect comic timing. This book was sweet, with a few hints of darker things (the band teacher, ugh), but mainly for me, it was all about love--for Zippy's childhood, a simpler time, families, especially hysterical and loving parents, bicycles, numerous childhood best friends, small towns...There were so many times that I wanted to hug this book because it made me remember being a kid. Read it and smile :)

"As she sat down in a booth many feet away from me, I leaned across the counter and said, conspiratorially, 'Speaking of the Wicked Witch of the West, huh? There's no place like home, is there?'
For the first and only time in my life, Doc [Holiday:] looked me in my eye. 'She's my wife.' He was very quiet, and so, in fact, was the whole planet.
'She is?' I whispered. I could hear myself blinking.
'What's her name?' he asked, still drilling holes into my miserable face.
'Mrs. Holiday,' I muttered, swallowing. I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness."