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Your Turn is an incredibly intimate, achingly funny story about what it means to be alive, and to love and to be loved.
The book reads like a magic trick. How else could a laugh-out-loud ode to renovating tired apartment buildings in Portland, Maine, really be a love story about how to radically change your life? Watson's deadpan humor carries the memoir, along with his ninja understanding of what makes people tick.
In a narrative that winds its way through the author's past work life and current rehabilitation from a life-changing medical event, Your Turn is an honest invitation to get real with ourselves. It reminds us not to take anything for granted in this lifetime, and that cities and people don't come back to life on their own. We need a radio crew of friends and trusted ones looking out for us-people like Tom Watson crawling around in our basement trying to fix our busted water pipes.
In the end Your Turn is about love. Big love for family and for life- saving friends and for a town. Grab the nearest seat. You won't be able to put this book down.
Tom Watson lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, and son. He also has a dog, as you could probably guess. The dog is a Labrador-Newfoundland mix. Tom says he looks like a Labrador with a bad perm. He wanted to name the dog "Put Your Shirt On" (please don't ask why), but he was outvoted by his family. The dog's name is Shadow. Early in his career Tom worked in politics, including a stint as the chief speechwriter for the governor of Ohio. This experience helped him develop the unique, storytelling narrative style of the Stick Dog books. More important, Tom's time in politics made him realize a very important thing: Kids are way smarter than adults. And it's a lot more fun and rewarding to write stories for them than to write speeches for grown-ups.
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