Fishing with Flip-flops is a collection of the most memorable, often time humorous stories, of growing up as street kids in the small Indiana town of Lowell in the '60s. Living behind their parents' florist shop, the five siblings survive by wit, pure luck, and each other. When they move to a little cottage on the Wildwood Bayou off the Kankakee River, the family finds out that there are more characters out in the world than they ever dreamed.