Indiana

Framed said, "I found In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd for Indiana. It's a humorous novel and I need some laughter right now. I may have to do this challenge twice."

Jean Shepherd was a master writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant —and utterly hilarious — works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown disproves the adage "You can never go back." Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth. Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri. And by the way, the movie "A Christmas Story" is based on a single chapter of this book.
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Jill said, "I read this book too! Here is my review. Quite funny and great look at Indiana during the depression."