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An eleven-year-old boy describes the joys and sorrows of growing up in a dysfunctional family with a jobless alcoholic father during the hard times of the Depression.
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HarperCollins (1993), Edition: First Paperback Edition
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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
... a powerful tale of one family's struggle for unity and love during hard times." Told from the point of view of a child as he grows old enough to face the realities of the Great Depression and adulthood in general, this deceptively brief, simply told story stayed with me for quite some time
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