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

''Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic.'' --People magazine, 4 stars. Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as ''the best undiscovered writer I ever met.'' Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched. 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 Augusten Burroughs 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. "Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." — People magazine, 4 stars. Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched . "Gut-splittingly funny ... a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic."--People magazine, 4 stars. Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched Describes the author's emotionally turbulent childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where he endured alienation from his peers and escaped into magical fantasies before developing a greater understanding of his beliefs, sexuality, and sense of self-worth