Ambidextrous

<p>Bold funny and shockingly honest <em>Ambidextrous</em> is like no other memoir of 1950s urban childhood. Picano appears to his parents and siblings to be a happy cheerful eleven-year-old possessed of the remarkable talent of being able to draw beautifully and write fluently with either hand. But then he runs into the mindless bigotry of a middle school teacher who insists that left-handedness is wrong and his idyllic world falls apart. He uncovers the insatiable appetites of a trio of neighboring sisters falls for another boy with a glue-sniffing habit and discovers the hidden world of adult desire and hypocrisy. Picano exits his boyhood sooner than most but with this sense of self intact and armed with a fuller understanding of the world he is about to enter.</p>