It's a Miracle It wasn't Worse: Growing Up in the 1930s and 1940s

by Edward B. Packard Jr.

"It’s a Miracle It Wasn’t Worse” is to some extent a work of social history, though my principal aim is to give readers a close-up view of my formative years, as if through a window, one that is also a mirror, for what I have written is most acutely a reflection of myself, a view that at the time was to a considerable degree obscured by fog-clouds of varying consistencies that circulated in my brain and persisted for decades after I reached adulthood until, only yesterday, it seems, a mostly unobstructed view emerged.”

186 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2016

Reviews

[JKR · Rating 3 out of 5]

I recently started collecting and re-reading the classic, out-of-print Choose Your Own Adventure books I enjoyed as a child. Mr. Packard was the premier writer for this series (as well as the person who originally conceived of the concept), so I couldn’t pass up reading this relatively recent, slim autobiography. It was enjoyably candid and introspective, with some hilarious moments of deadpan humor.