This memoir by Minnesota playwright and storyteller Kevin Kling is as funny as it is poignant. "Christmas dinner. All the relatives start to arrive: Aunt Charlene and Aunt Floy, two aunts that hug me, call me by my brother's name and say how much I've grown." Boyhood memories include taxidermy, Lutheran guilt, drive in movies and snow days. But some of the chapters are an adult's perspective on topics like personal geography and losing a parent. Throughout, Kling writes with lyricism and a stand-up comic's sense of pace. He zooms from personal minutiae to universal insights with a smoothness that made the book a finalist last year for the Minnesota Book Award. --Jenny H.
Request The Dog Says How from Saint Paul Public Library.
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