"So here it is: an illustrated record of a typical Catholic childhood. Catholics will recognize most of it; non-Catholics will recognize the Catholics; but nobody will recognize everybody, because the names have been changed to protect the guilty." - from the author's introduction.
Rick Detorie is the creator of the popular comic strip One Big Happy. He is the author of 14 humor books, including the best-sellers No Good Men, No Good Lawyers, Totally Tacky Cartoons, Catholics and How to Survive an Italian Family. He currently resides in Venice, California.