Son of Rebel Bookseller: A Very Large Homework Assignment

I AM NOT MY SO-CALLED ILLNESSThis celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction poetry and essays together with Andrew Laties reminiscences--along with the tale of Andys struggle to invest Sams death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint son and father explore mortality and redemption mental illness and creativity education and exploitation morality and hypocrisy and the transcendent power of imagination.SAMUEL LATIES was publisher of The Jeffs Class Tribune. He attended Near North Montessori North Star Self-directed Learning for Teens and Holyoke Community College.ANDREW LATIES wrote Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For--From Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities which won the Independent Publisher Award and is available from Seven Stories Press.