Prairie Town Boyhood

This collection of twenty-eight interrelated short stories is a personal account about growing up in a small South Dakota town. Beginning at age four and extending through age seventeen, its stories cover learning to speak English and adapting to town customs from farm life; coping with two of my mother's remarriages that followed my father's death when I was two; as an adolescent sharing in the family home with an older brother, also an adolescent, after my mother's death; and...
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This collection of twenty-eight interrelated short stories is a personal account about growing up in a small South Dakota town. Beginning at age four and extending through age seventeen, its stories cover learning to speak English and adapting to town customs from farm life; coping with two of my mother's remarriages that followed my father's death when I was two; as an adolescent sharing in the family home with an older brother, also an adolescent, after my mother's death; and enduring bad part-time jobs to save money for college. The emotions of anxiety, fear, depression, happiness and joy permeate the stories.