Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir

"Funny, elegiac . . . a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world." —NPR

One of the Best Books of the Year—Amazon, Golf Digest, Minnesota Public Radio

This is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons. Of growing up in a magical era populated by Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing...