This series of hilarious vignettes, set in the Mid-South in the late 60’s, is narrated by a wonderfully precocious and self-assured 10 year old named Willie. The writer, William L. Garner, claims this as fiction, but it reads like a series of connected essays that form a first person, non-fiction account of (possibly) his own childhood (albeit with a generous helping of “fish story” creative embellishment, and maybe a flat out whopper or two). |