The Hue and Cry at Our House

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a  New York Times  Editor's Choice.   “A marvel of a book—elegant, touching, singular.” —Mary Karr “ Brief and moving . . . An elegantly written book, erudite, perceptive and at times painfully candid.”— M