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Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird: A Memoir

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This gritty tragicomic memoir is about in one memorable year—1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming twist of fate. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow as much as be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each and every night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to “flip the Wicked Bird” any time some other child makes fun of his “lobster-red hand.” Doug shares his summer of healing in Wabash, Indiana, with humans and animals who’ve suffered life-changing traumas: a brutal grandfather gentled by stroke, a deaf dog with a deadly taste for pig’s ears, a tough-love mother dealing with depression, a bevy of runt piglets saved from extermination. It is a story of affection, loss, healing, and a circle of relatives’s relation with the land they love and know that they are going to lose.
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