By Tom Dalton

ISBN-10: 1771800925

ISBN-13: 9781771800921

Three-and-a-half-year-old Michael Murphy is a ache within the ass. He sure shouldn’t be invited to from now on weddings; final one he kicked the guy his mom married within the shins. All he does is piss and moan, and he won't eat anything his mom cooks. For the lifetime of him, he can’t comprehend why his new grandmother might try and smother him with a pillow. Through it all, Michael is a fighter — he survives malnutrition and double pneumonia earlier than his first day at a one-room schoolhouse at the Pinch in overdue 1950s Newfoundland. Then there’s a baseball bat, a hammer, a hatchet, some inconvenient clean cow patties, a binge-drinking father and an ever-pregnant mom… The hard-place boy faces a similar selection day by day: to buckle down and develop into a favorable support to his kin, or proceed down a devilishly contrarian and obstructive path.

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