Davey Monroe lives in the kind of suburban neighborhood that folks who move out of the city hope to find. It’s the 1940’s and 50’s and it’s still a time of innocence despite recent memories of a “hot” war and the beginning of a “cold” one.

The Short Happy Life of Davey Monroe has thirty-four short works or episodes. Each focuses on a different aspect of young Davey’s life as he grows from age five to age twelve. Some of them describe his relationships with his parents, teachers, friends, strangers, “aliens” or enemies. Others examine his budding sexuality, his schooling, his ever-expanding explorations or his developing sense of his own, personal place in the world. Like all of us, he has moments of triumph and moments of tragedy. And like all of us, he learns the great lessons of life—the most important of which we all learned in childhood, too.

You may read the prologue to The Short Happy Life of Davey Monroe by going to the "Sample my books" page.

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