Where My Wand? One Boy Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting Eric Poole 9780425241011 Books

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"Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." --People magazine, 4 stars.

Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched.

Where My Wand? One Boy Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting Eric Poole 9780425241011 Books

I recall seeing a multi-sentence blurb in some magazine a while back that this was a must-read about a kid who loved Endora in "Bewitched." I was unprepared for such a rich, funny, well-observed memoir of a gay kid growing up in the Seventies, and how he related to the world, his parents, his classmates, and how the TV show "Bewitched" allowed him to grasp that there must be something better than this. There are quite a few books out there that attempt to portray the "smart ass" kid who utters oh-so-clever ripostes and such, but Mr. Poole's substantial gift is to truly make the reader see the world through his protagonist's eyes, and the character's adventures are consistently real and true-to-life.

And leave it to Mr. Poole to end the book in a wonderfully moving scene that completely gets you due to everything that happens before. I'm so glad I discovered this book.

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