SQUIRT!

About the Book

SQUIRT! chronicles the misadventures of a young boy growing up in the Midwest, from his first exposure to sex to the tragic death of his father. In the tradition of Roddy Doyle’s, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, SQUIRT! is narrated by the main character, whose world is described as only a child could see it—innocently, and yet full of remarkable emotional insight.

See Squirt:

· spy on his adulterous neighbors!

· almost drown in Lake Erie!

· catch his dad with a blonde!

· fall in love with the beautiful Mrs. Hoover!

· drop an easy pop fly!

· play with a three-legged dog!

· go into the bushes with Lizzy Mancini!

· kill his dad??

As seen through the eyes of Squirt himself, these charming tales explore the emotional landscape of a frightened but irrepressibly curious child who is forced by circumstances to grow up before his time.

About the Author

Chris Belden lives in Brooklyn, New York.