Review: Hilarious hardships!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
Today there is much talk about the effects of the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age.  The miracle is that any of us survived childhood.  There were no seat belts, no safety helmets, and no helicopter parents.  The "Greatest Generation" produced huge families (four to six kids was the norm; any fewer and people wondered what was wrong) and pushed us out the door to entertain ourselves.  Either they  didn't care what happened to us ("There's more where that one came from!") or they were overly optimistic about our common sense and survival skills.  It made for a hair-raising childhood and Purcell's very funny, very well-written stories are evocative of an era that is long gone.