My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy -- Edward Hirsch, Hardcover

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My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy -- Edward Hirsch, HardcoverFrom the award winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle class Jewish family whose hard boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming of age. "My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water. . . . They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsch says in the "prologue" to this glorious festival of knife sharp observations. In microchapters

Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to be the first woman

With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut

Shame: the torment you feel when you're exposed

and relatable storyline

Drawing on his deep involvement in revolutionary struggles

Michael Caine

during the Great Depression era

Perhaps more so than any other state

They Saved the Stallions is bound to please every history fan and horse lover

Help kids grow their executive functioning skills with activities for ages 6 to 9

Dany's magical sketchbook has steered most of her middle-school life so far -- it even helped create her best friend

Published: 1/17/1996