Description
Book SynopsisA charming, humorous, and colorful coming of age memoir.
Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key that chronicles his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was a sleepy resort community, deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class residents.
Trade ReviewMobile Bay is famous in song and story, and Watt Key now joins the distinguished ranks of those writers who have helped make it so. If, after half an hour absorbed in these pages, you do not immediately make travel plans to gaze upon these lovely tawny waters for yourself, I for one shall be surprised." - From the foreword by John S. Sledge
Table of Contents
- Foreword by John S. Sledge
- Introduction
- The New Old Point Clear
- Government Housing
- Arts and Crafts in Point Clear
- The Longest Day of the Year
- The Green Station Wagon
- Pets
- Hurricanes
- Joe
- Gone to Texas
- The Bird Nest
- Dirty Jobs
- The Grand Hotel
- The Jubilee
- Shrimping
- Dove Hunting
- The Necklace
- The Ghost of Zundel's Wharf—A Local Legend
- The Point Clear Library
- Point Clear Tennis Club
- Arrival
- Point Clear Towing
- First Cars
- Baseball
- The Runaway
- Into the Wild
- The Body
- I'llNeeda
- Mardi Gras
- The Perfect Pond
- A Night at Middle Bay Lighthouse
- Majors Creek
- Convicts
- Conclusion
