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New York Daily News reporter Bill Hutchinson’s rollicking coming-of-age tale takes us into Steinbeck country in the era of Cesar Chavez. Here Bill began life as the youngest son of an Okinawan mother and a Black, Irish Cherokee father who could pass as Mexican. His fire-and-brimstone grandparents had their work cut out saving the souls of his Shinto mom, alcoholic dad and two renegade brothers. In a darkly humorous and fiercely unique narrative voice, the author explores how one American boy makes it out of the melting pot alive. (Click here to read the NY Daily News review)