Lia's review
The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino by Alec Wilkinson
It's a story about a man who builds busted weird rafts and sails them across oceans without dying in the process, but it's also about this football formation that he invents. I like the raft part, and the stories about his family vagabonding all over the country and into Mexico, singing for their supper and painting signs for cash..the football part I could do without. The man himself is fascinating in a car wreck kind of way, but the writer somehow manages to put too much of himself into the story, I can't ever forget he's there, judging and evaluating the things that Poppa does. Still, I'd reccomend it.
I just got this from the library today! Jason and I are both excited to read it, just the making a raft out of garbage idea is enough to get me reading.
