Days Like Smoke: A Minnesota Boyhood

by Jon Hassler and Will Weaver

Book Overview

The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota's favorite writers, now published for the first time

I've always thought of the Red Owl Grocery Store in Plainview, Minnesota, as my training ground, for it was there that I acquired the latent qualities necessary to the novelist: from my dear German father, endurance, patience, resilience, and sound working habits, and from my dear Irish mother, the fun of picking individuals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1736102117
• ISBN13: 9781736102114
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Afton Historical Society Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"