After being diagnosed with brain cancer as a teen, Seattle writer Jeff Henigson made an unconventional Starlight Children’s Foundation wish. He wanted to (and did) travel to Moscow to talk with Gorbachev about nuclear disarmament. But this memoir is less about cancer and the Cold War than it is about surviving high school and searching for love, affection, and praise from a formal, distant father. As a fiction reader, this is my favorite type of nonfiction: it reads like a novel. A heart-wrenching yet humorous and inspirational page-turner. (ages 12 and up)
—Cindy, Madison Books, Seattle, WA
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