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I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

by Philip Gulley

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A comic portrait of growing up in small-town Indiana

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A comic portrait of growing up in small-town Indiana

Philip Gulley’s childhood memoir gathers its episodes around Danville, Indiana, and the unruly particulars of growing up there in the 1970s. A sixth-grade crush on Miss Huddleston sits alongside family camping mishaps, the Blizzard of ’78, and schemes involving Halloween candy and tomato “grenades.” Local details—including a mouse factory, a haunted railroad bridge, and a police dog that responds only to German—give the recollections a strong sense of place. The book pairs coming-of-age memories with snapshots of ordinary small-town life, from Schwinn bicycles to odd government work collecting dead fish.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in humorous coming-of-age memoirs.
  • Those curious about small-town Indiana and 1970s childhood memories.
  • Readers who enjoy memoirs built from comic family and local-life anecdotes.

Themes

Coming of ageSmall-town lifeFamily mishaps1970s childhoodNostalgia

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Book overview

In the vein of Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.

 

What happens when your childhood is one of unrelieved and happy chaos?

 

  • Coming of Age: Navigate a sixth-grade crush on the unforgettable Miss Huddleston, disastrous family camping trips, and the legendary Blizzard of '78.
  • Small Town Life: Explore Danville, Indiana--a town with a mouse factory, a haunted railroad bridge, and a police dog that only responds to German.
  • Childhood Adventures: Join in on dubious schemes, from an epic (and failed) Halloween candy marathon to launching tomato "grenades" from a Laundromat roof.
  • 1970s Nostalgia: A world of Schwinn ten-speeds, questionable government jobs picking up dead fish, and trying to figure out girls during a showing of Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
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