Toadsuck Tales: "You Either Laugh or Slit Your Throat" - Paperback

by Peter E. Gordy (Author)

Toadsuck Tales is a collection of stories about what really happened growing up in the South in the 1950's. A young doctor, his beautiful, outlandish wife and their four children shock the little backwater town where they run wild and free. Marijo, leading with a Pall Mall in one hand and an Old Crow and Coke in the other, herds the four youngsters from one adventure to another. Leaving Luke, the oldest, to exclaim, "Jake LaMotta " You will too.

Author Biography

Peter Gordy is a writer who survived growing up in Toadsuck, Arkansas. He wrote the first nationally distributed newspaper column about raising children from a Dad's perspective. He's married, has two children who still like him and he lives in Atlanta.