{"product_id":"why-dogs-chase-cars-tales-of-a-beleaguered-boyhood","title":"Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five  South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack)  all Mendal Dawes wants is out.  Its not just his hometown thats hopeless. Mendals father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every day  Mr. Dawes is a parenting guides bad example. He buries stuff in the backyardfake toxic barrels  imitation Burma Shave signs (BIRD ON A WIRE  BIRD ON A PERCH  FLY TOWARD HEAVEN  FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH)  yardstick collections. He calls Mendal \"Fuzznuts\" and makes him recite Marx and Durkheim daily and befriend a classmate rumored to have head lice.  Mendal Dawes is a boy itching to get out of town  to take the high road and leave the South and his dingbat dad far behindjust like those car-chasing dogs.  But bottom line  this funky  sometimes outrageous  and always very human tale is really about how Mendal discovers that neither he nor the dogs actually want to catch a ride  that the hand that has fed them has a lot more to offer. On the way to watching that light dawn  we also get to watch the Dawess precarious relationship with a place whose \"gene pool is so shallow that it wouldnt take a Dr. Scholls insert to keep ones soles dry.\"  To be consistently funny is a great gift. To be funny and cynical and empathetic all at the same time is George Singletons special gift  put brilliantly into play in this new collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966524289077,"sku":"ByrdShop_1565124049","price":44.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781565124042.jpg?v=1770566579","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-dogs-chase-cars-tales-of-a-beleaguered-boyhood","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}