A funny and sometimes poignant compellation of humor stories from the author's bizarre childhood in 1970's Kingman; a dusty Arizona basin town two hours south of Las Vegas and a million miles from normal. With jagged wit and a keen eye for the absurd, Ms. Coffey leads us deftly though her confused, lurching prepubescent years as she grapples with sexism, racism and several of the other "isms" that left so many of us lost, befuddled and tripping over our bellbottoms as we stumbled toward the eighties.