Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 I wanted to believe that we were a middle-class family in a middle-class suburb of San Francisco. I remember my mother making elaborate dinners and setting the table with Hawaiian tablecloths or Chinese dishes, stemware, and tableware.#2 I had a habit of spontaneously announcing that we were going camping. The anticipation was too much for any five-year-old, and it was overwhelming for me at that age. The beach was one of the few places we went as a family in public, and we were allowed to exercise the normal relationships shared among most brothers.