Free Range: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

A fun and quirky memoir about a large family of unconventional spirits in the fast-changing Bay Area of the 1960s and 1970s. Fast-paced and hilarious, it truthfully relates the positives and negatives of free-range parenting, told by a boy who questions everything, and rebels against his family by going straight-laced. The doors are always unlocked and open, the streetlights need never come on, and little Stevie is ...... a dork.A spaz, from a family of spazzes. His body just won't grow, and he longs to distance himself from his embarrassing family, yet he enjoys the improvisations in the streets. He gets his chance to travel far, and while getting plenty of cuts and bruises, he falls head-over-heels in love with life.