![]() In the autumn, in season, there is deer hunting and Key tells of killing his first buck, at 12 years old, after which he is ceremoniously “blooded” and then hoodwinked. Key and his brothers build a tree house, go shrimping, and fish in the bay, sometimes for trout. It was a different Point Clear, that is clearer, simpler, more natural, almost Edenic.Ĭhildren stay overnight in the woods but are not kidnapped. ![]() It would, as they say, make a good gift for your maiden aunt. ![]() Readers should know this is a very quiet book, no violence, and sex and drugs had not yet been invented. The Keys spent summers in their little house on the bay, with no air conditioning, the children often sleeping on the wharf, to catch the breezes. The Grand Hotel was long-established but the whole area had not become so very posh. This book, “Bay Boy,” is another collection of nonfiction pieces, but Key takes us further back in time to when he was a boy, growing up, especially in summers, in Point Clear, Alabama. ![]() Watt Key established himself as a writer of young adult fiction with three successful novels, “Alabama Moon” (2006), “Dirt Road Home” (2010) and “Fourmile” (2012), then published a collection of nonfiction stories set in the Mobile-Tensaw River delta, “Among the Swamp People.” In that book we explore this geographically near but hard-to-access piece of nature and some of the odd folks who make it their home or their hide-out. “Bay Boy: Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama” ![]()
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