As real as old Kodaks on thick glossy paper with scalloped white borders, certain images from my childhood are etched in my memory. A defining one is of my father hitchhiking alone on the highway in full view of his wife and four children – all five of us sitting in the family sedan no more than twenty feet away. This wasn’t about car trouble and him going for help. He was just – going …
Bio:
Lawrence Scanlan is the author of 26 books, both nonfiction and fiction, and the winner of four National Magazine Awards. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.