The summer of ordinary ways
By: Nicole Lea Helget.
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976- -- Childhood and youth.; Children of alcoholics -- Minnesota -- Biography.; Farm life -- Minnesota -- Anecdotes.; Summer -- Minnesota -- Anecdotes.; Minnesota -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Anecdotes.
Description: "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.