I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit

I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions / 221-page paperback / 5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589881716 / Publication Date: 2/7/2023 “Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhouse in Nebraska. Dreesen portrays the intriguing characters they met as well as the characters they became . . . Dreesen expertly plays with language, cadence, texture, emotion, memory, and facts to impart the sense that all our knowledge is ‘second hand,’ full of miscomprehension of other people and their perceptions, and yet our experiences are precious, our stories illuminating.”—Booklist “And what I’m about to tell you can’t be toldstraight, so needs to be contained by form,for the tale is messy and meandering,if not downright weedy and windyas all the characters who blew through our livesback then and who we had to bend into,grimacing and hu