Funny, Elegiac 'Sting-Ray Afternoons' Strikes A Nostalgic Chord
Sportswriter Steve Rushin's memoir of growing up in Minnesota in the 1970s is familiar territory, but Rushin mines it with irony and affection, working hard to capture the look and feel of the era.
In the early 1950s, sportswriter Steve Rushin's hometown of Bloomington, Minn., had a population of just 9,902. Within a decade, it had exploded to more than 50,000, becoming the kind of booming American suburb where families were large and life centered on school, church and sports.
In his funny, elegiac memoir ons, Rushin mines this ineffably familiar terrain with a sense of irony
