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The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's Choice. “A marvel of a book—elegant, touching, singular.” —Mary Karr “ Brief and moving . . . An elegantly written book, erudite, perceptive and at times painfully candid.”— Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal After John F. Kennedy’s speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor’s teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president’s assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn’t, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the outsiz
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Taylor, Benjamin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781524705299
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (61 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13