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...