Lord, What a Family!
About this book
This warm, delightful story of Robert Leckie's childhood in Rutherford, New Jersey, tells of life with a distinctly likable family -- their pranks and problems, religion and revelries. There was Father ( called Foddy and sometimes :the Pope"), Mother, five sisters , assorted unemployed uncles, and Robert himself. Father held his position with the skill of an Old School Head of the House. "Lord, what a family!" he would say, when Mother learned to drive by complete intimidation of the Mayor of Park Avenue ( the local cop), or when Bojangles, the spaniel who thought he was people, chewed gum or could barely hold his liquor. When the Pink Fairy, the housekeeper who dressed in pink dress,stockings, shoes, fingernails and hair, locked herself in her room each night with a spike and hammer, Foddy-- answering Mother's excuses-- said, "Euphemism, Marion, does not necessarily lead to optimism. The woman's a nut!"