A Keen Sense of Small

The autobiographical journey of Tony Renzi to his childhood in New England in the 1950s presents the reader with a picture album of adventure in which each snapshot is labeled in crayon with a growing boy's questions about meaning, value, purpose, and life in the universe of an immigrant Italian-American family. The boy's story is told as a series of first person conversations with an imaginary entity, a patch of grass and weeds on his father's chicken farm he calls his Thinking Ground. The world of grown ups is often unfair, incomprehensible, unwelcoming and even  mean. Even so, young Tony manages to dodge that world whenever he can, finding instead that there’s fun around every corner. From Plymouth harbor on the arrival of the Mayflower II to hurricanes and forest fires, elementary school and summer camp, girls and ghosts, Indian lore, hell holes, wild boars on a mountain, rat shoots and bear hunts, little Tony insists on seeing the world his way, until it insists otherwise. Written under a pseudonym by a international business figure, this is a book that will bring knowing smiles to readers of all ages.