| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
| 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 |
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17 He's Saying His Runty Good-Byes -- 18 Winesburg, Ohio and Homemade Shirts -- 19 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 |
| 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 animals who've suffered life-changing traumas: a brutal grandfather gentled by stroke, a deaf dog with a deadly taste for pig's ears, a tough-love mother coping with depression, a bevy of runt piglets saved from extermination. This is a story of love, loss, healing, and a family's relation with the land they love and know that they will lose |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crandell, Doug -- Childhood and youth
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Crandell, Doug -- Homes and haunts -- Indiana -- Wabash Region
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| SUBJECT |
Crandell, Doug fast |
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
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Rural families -- Indiana -- Wabash Region
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Accident victims -- Indiana -- Biography
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Farm life -- Indiana -- Wabash Region
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Fingers -- Wounds and injuries.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Accident victims
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Authors, American
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Farm life
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Fingers -- Wounds and injuries
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Homes
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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Rural families
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Wabash Region (Ind.) -- Social life and customs
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Indiana -- Intellectual life
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Indiana
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781556529870 |
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1556529872 |
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9781556529887 |
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1556529880 |
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