A quintessential coming-of-age story in which Joe Kaplan describes, with wry humor, what it was like to grow up in a small, southern, mountain town in the only Jewish family in the 1940s and 50s. He recounts experiences as a Boy Scout carving the Appalachian Trail out of the woods with a machete, what happens when you load up an aluminum trash can with firecrackers and roll it downhill, and the fun he had on the basketball team, even though he couldn't...