My Life

A little boy races down a village lane, white underclothes trailing, delighted to be beyond his nurse’s reach. Josiah Flynt’s first escape ends in the lockup—with a stick of candy and a view of the fire engine.

In a Methodist village near Chicago, where respectability has deep roots, young Josiah is already restless, drawn toward the world beyond the familiar lanes. His father, a Chicago newspaper editor, is gone by the time Josiah is eight; his mother struggles to keep the family together while her son’s runaway trips multiply. Flynt recalls childhood with irreverence and tenderness, looking back on the first stirrings of a life spent chasing what he calls Die Ferne—the Beyond. How far can one small boy’s urge to run take him?

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