Bibliograph

Pig Boy's wicked bird, a memoir, Doug Crandell

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Label

Pig Boy's wicked bird, a memoir, Doug Crandell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pig Boy's wicked bird

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Doug Crandell

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year1976, 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 have 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

Target audience

adult

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