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An affecting memoir in one of America's most sexy humorists In the last 2 decades, Joe Queenan has generated herself as a scourge of exactly what is half-baked, half-witted, and half-hearted in National tradition. In Conclusion Period, Queenan becomes his sights on the more significant and a more individual subject: his youth in a Philly property challenge in the first 1960s. By turns tragic and hilarious, Final Period recounts Queenanis Irish Catholic childhood in a household dominated by his inconsistent, alcoholic dad, and his lengthy trip from the confines of his community in to the higher, broad earth. A tale about escape and salvation, Final Period has at its center the ingredients of a vintage American autobiography.