Mistaken for a King

“Exacting, unsentimental, and profoundly humane” – Anne Pierson Wiese, author of Floating City: Poems Mistaken for a King evokes the life of a small-town boy in the middle of the last century. The book distills the essence of childhood in a series of finely honed and often funny essays, recounting memorable events and adventures that occurred between the ages of five and twelve. Kids roamed free as sparrows in Marion, Iowa, during the 1940s. Untouched by television, they created their own amusem