This Little Ichnolite of Mine

Just as an ichnolite is a fossil footprint...

This Little Ichnolite of Mine fossilizes memories from a small town on the Mississippi River from 1950 to 1970.

Martin Settle recounts a childhood in the woods and on the river, a Catholic education, humorous and morose, friends who became hippies and drug addicts, the town's racism and homophobia, and a family always on the edge of the law with gamblers, bootleggers, and bars. As much mythology as memoir, and told with humor and poignancy, Settle...