The True Account

Need something for the trip D? This book will be an excellent choice to distract you in busy airports.

I am sick so I have been reading a lot. This has been the best of the lot. It has many Don Quixote references and for good reason. This pure imagination and adventure. It is a narrative written by a kid about his crazy uncle and all they do together. I am going to give you a quote from fairly early in the book, so I don't give too much away:

(from handbills printed by the kid)

RUNAWAY UNCLE. Run off from Kingdom Common, Vermont, and UNCLE, Private True Teague Kinneson, about 50 years of age. His stature is tall, his countenance fierce, his clothes and gear those of a knight-errant, consisting of chain mail, a belled night-stocking over a copper plate in his head, a red sash, and galoshes worn high or low as the occasion requires. A former soldier with the Continental Army, a playwright, and a clasical scholar, this UNCLE imagines himself to have explored from the Pacific up the Columbia River, across the Rocky Mountains, and thence overland to St. Louis and the United States. Whoever conveys him safely home, or into the care of his nephew, Ticonderoga Kinneson, shall have 5 dollars from

THE KINNESON FAMILY
KINGDOM COMMON, VERMONT

This book flies by much faster than I would want. Very fun.