King Of The Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

A riveting, scorching—and hilarious—autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes and Deadline. From trying to impress a member of the girls’ softball team with disastrous dental results to enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation, Chris Crutcher’s memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid, disarming, and laugh-out-loud funny. He vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has survived. This book is relevant, engaging, and never less than riveting. Fans of Tara Westover’s Educated, Jack Gantos’s Hole in My Life, and Walter Dean Myers’s Bad Boy will laugh, cry, and remember.