Cop's kid : a Milwaukee memoir / Mel C. Miskimen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miskimen, Mel C., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miskimen, Mel C., 1955---Childhood and youth.

Miskimen, Mel C.

Fathers and daughters--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Fathers and daughters.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Biography.

Milwaukee (Wis.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

B-Day, as it came to be known, finally arrived. It was a Friday. A school day. I identified with Cinderella as I watched Dad get ready for work. Holster, check. Gun, check. Billy club, check. Handcuffs, check. . . . Saturday morning I got up early. Dad was already gone. Back to work. Ushering the Beatles out of town. On the table . . . there were two small bars of soap, slightly used, the words "Coach House Inn" still legible. One book of matches with four missing. And a note from Dad, "From their room." . . . No one else s dad comes home from work with something that might, just might, have been intimate with a Beatle. Growing up, Mel Miskimen thought that a gun and handcuffs on the kitchen table were as normal as a gallon of milk and a loaf of Mrs. Karl s bread. Her father, a Milwaukee cop for almost forty years was part Super Hero (He simply held up his hand and three lanes of traffic came to a screeching halt) and part Supreme Being (He could be anywhere at anytime. I never knew when or where he would pop up.) Miskimen s memoir, told in humorous vignettes, tells what it was like for a girl growing up with a dad who packed a lunch and packed heat."

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-55034-2

0-299-18883-3

OCLC:

811410422