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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 dribble, run, or shoot hoops to save his life.Kaplan draws you into the old-fashioned goodness of small-town life. His writing captivates you from the history of his family's arrival to Canton, NC to his last, lanky days in high school.