Pig Boy's wicked bird : a memoir / Doug Crandell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crandell, Doug.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Rural families--Indiana--Wabash Region.

Rural families.

Accident victims--Indiana--Biography.

Accident victims.

Farm life--Indiana--Wabash Region.

Farm life.

Fingers--Wounds and injuries.

Fingers.

Wabash Region (Ind.)--Social life and customs.

Wabash Region (Ind.).

Indiana--Intellectual life.

Indiana.

Crandell, Doug--Childhood and youth.

Crandell, Doug.

Crandell, Doug--Homes and haunts--Indiana--Wabash Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year?1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to ?flip the Wicked Bird" any time another child makes fun of his ?lobster-red hand." Doug shares his summer of healing in Wabash, Indiana, with humans and animal

Contents:

Front Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I; 1 Who Is the Real Pig Boy?; 2 When Grandfathers Steal Pigs; 3 Our Lady of Electrical Lights; 4 Chores and Sex Ed; 5 Wicked Birds; 6 Pillow Therapy, Rocks Too; 7 First Soaks During Hee Haw; 8 A Glimpse of Jimmy; 9 And Then There Were Two; 10 Break-Fist at Noon; 11 It's Home and It's Weird; 12 Devil Worshippers; 13 Third-Person Mother Cometh; Part II; 14 Peanut and Other Runts; 15 Your Mother's in the Bicentennial Bathroom; 16 Dot Matrix Bills and the Fourth of July; 17 He's Saying His Runty Good-Byes

18 Winesburg, Ohio and Homemade Shirts19 Run, Joe, Run; 20 Fear Far from I-465; 21 If Thy Hand Offends Thee, Cut It Off; 22 Taking the Meringue Ridge Back Home; Part III; 23 Colored Glass; 24 Buy These; 25 The Uncle Sam Outfit; 26 Pig Boy on the Lam; 27 Don't Go Parading My Heart Around; 28 Poisoned Heart; 29 Ear Envy; 30 Watching Roots in an Inaugural Blizzard; Epilogue; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-55652-987-2

OCLC:

463171598