This "mostly true" novel follows the author's life from 1954, when he was run over by a car in the streets of Chicago at the tender age of four, up to the tumultuous summer of 1968, when he was old enough to leave home and strike out on his own. In between. you'll read about life in a dysfunctional family of nine children and parents who cared more about making more kids than they did for caring for the ones they already had.