His mother checked into the hospital to have a tumor removed. She came home with a baby boy. Thus begins the saga of a boy named Phyllis - a funny, witty, touching memoir of growing up gay in the aluminum-sidinged wilds of Little Falls, New Jersey, that is the perfect antidote to the angst-ridden gay memoir. With a family that resembles the cast from the Munsters, Frank DeCaro explores other major influences on his formative years - from Flipper to the Partridge Family, Paul Linde to Disco - and broadens gay coming-of-age literature with a comic touch.
