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Cop's Kid: A Milwaukee Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mel C. MiskimenPublish date:2003-08-18Pages:138
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299188801ISBN-10:299188809UPC:9780299188801Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:8.82 x 5.24 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCSCGTJH3P

B-Day, as it came to be known, finally arrived. It was a Friday. A school day. I identified with Cinderella as I watched Dad get ready for work. Holster, check. Gun, check. Billy club, check. Handcuffs, check. . . . Saturday morning I got up early. Dad was already gone. Back to work. Ushering the Beatles out of town. On the table . . . there were two small bars of soap, slightly used, the words "Coach House Inn" still legible. One book of matches with four missing. And a note from Dad, "From their room." . . . No one else's dad comes home from work with something that might, just might, have been intimate with a Beatle.
Growing up, Mel Miskimen thought that a gun and handcuffs on the kitchen table were as normal as a gallon of milk and a loaf of Mrs. Karl's bread. Her father, a Milwaukee cop for almost forty years was part Super Hero (He simply held up his hand and three lanes of traffic came to a screeching halt) and part Supreme Being (He could be anywhere at anytime. I never knew when or where he would pop up.) Miskimen's memoir, told in humorous vignettes, tells what it was like for a girl growing up with a dad who packed a lunch and packed heat.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299188801ISBN-10:299188809UPC:9780299188801Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:8.82 x 5.24 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCSCGTJH3P
Mel Miskimen is a lifelong Milwaukee resident and an actor, writer, and humorist who regularly appears on the Higher Ground program on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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