Where's My Wand? : One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting

by Poole, Eric (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780399156557
• ISBN10: 0399156550
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-27
• Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

Summary

Set in the Midwest of the 1970's, this memoir evokes that idyllic, old-school time before computers and cell phones, when people were horrible to one another face-to-face. From an early age, Eric Poole was obsessed with Endora of TV's Bewitched. Just days after arriving at the family's new home in St. Louis, Missouri, eight-year-old Eric had staked out the basement as his special place: a spot where he could secretly perform magical incantations-draped in a tattered white bedspread he prayed his obsessive-compulsive mother wouldn't miss-as an antidote to his alienation. This is a book for fans of David Rakoff and TV's Malcolm in the Middle. Eric Poole's stories take readers on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey in which the magic in his life slowly morphs from childhood wonder to religious dogma to an understanding that the real, true magic is believing in yourself.

Author Biography

Eric Poole is the secret love child of Fran Lebowitz and David Sedaris. But oddly taller. A VP of radio marketing for a major media company, he resides in Los Angeles with his partner of eight years.