Jerry Hines

The Nine of Us: a Lighthearted Memoir Jerry Hines

Are you part of the "Baby-Boomer" generation that grew up in the fifties and sixties? Or did your parents grow up in that era? Have you ever experienced or wondered what it was like to grow up in a large family living in an urban neighborhood full of kids? This lighthearted memoir about growing up in a large Catholic family in the fifties and sixties is told through the voice of a young boy. The author shares with you his daily adventures with his closest brother, the embarrassment of his first physical, how he paid the price for stealing from his friend the local grocer and what it was like to attend catholic school including the horror of being told he was flunking fourth grade. All this, while being mystified by the nuns and the idiosyncrasies of being raised Catholic. He also reveals the oddities that were part of being raised in a large family from this era.