The story opens in Chicago as Paulsen recalls his earliest memories of life when his mother worked in a munitions factory during the Second World War. He remembers only the toddler's narrow world: the cramped apartment, the frightening dark alley nearby, and the noisy bar where he sang for patrons who bought him fried chicken and Coke. At the war's end, Paulsen and his mother begin a grueling crosscountry trip by car to catch a transport ship at San Francisco which would take them to the Philippines to meet his father. The slow Pacific crossing is recounted in.....
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