The Mighty Currawongs

<p><b>Both intimate and irreverent <i>The Mighty Currawongs</i> taps into the small truths of what makes a life worth living-from the oddly hilarious to the cherished and pure.</b><br></p>A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle—exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant tailors who specialize in holes how to report stigmata to your attending physician the intense hilarity of basketball how to have a bitter verbal marital fight in your car an all-Chinese football team in Australia soccer and Catholicism what it's like to be in a ska band a singing Korean baker an archbishop who loses his faith between the salad and the entree genius Girl Scouts who save a radio station and a baby born from a lake in Illinois. And some other fascinating stories. Really. Trust us.