Skeet Kirby tells, in his own rambling small-town idiom, of the summers he spent with his friend Mitch Miller in a river town in Illinois. Mitch has read Tom Sawyer and is determined to live it, so the boys hunt treasure, ride the cupola of a train and scheme their way through boyhood.
A tender, funny novel of a Midwestern boyhood by the poet of Spoon River Anthology, written for adults who remember being boys. Download the free EPUB.