Title: The summer of ordinary ways /
Authors: Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976-
Publisher: Borealis Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Helget, Nicole Lea, Childhood and youth.; Children of alcoholics Minnesota Biography.; Farm life Minnesota Anecdotes.; Summer Minnesota Anecdotes.; Minnesota Biography.
Abstract: "Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Moonshine and dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of this memoir"--Jacket flap.
Contents: Stain you red (Summer 1983) -- Burn to black (Summer 1993) -- Cockleburs in the laundry (Summer 1984) -- Brewing (Summer 1982) -- Brimstone (Summer 1985) -- Courting the milkman (Summer 1988) -- Rooted here (Summer 1984) -- Vanity and the Immaculate Heart (Summer 1988) -- Caterpillar hunting (Summer 1983) -- The summer of ordinary ways (Summer 1982).