Richard just wanted to be from somewhere …

For young Richard, every year it's the same story: as soon as he settles into his surroundings, with its friendships, school, sports teams, and all those customs that make a place home, he is forced to move. As a boy who is wiser beyond his years, he sees his parents' strain to follow the upwardly mobile quest of the American Dream--but at what cost? This memoir reveals what it was like to be a teenager in 1960s America. It is a book about disconnection and loss, but also of hope and change: the person we once were does not dictate the person we will become. This recognition is what ultimately holds our destiny.

"Offered with modesty and narrative grace, charged with heart-stopping events and characters"

--Stefanie Marlis

"Skillfully and empathically written"

--Sara Ries Dziekonski

"Richard Robison's memoir shows us the tender and brutal in a sensitive recollection"

--Peter Money