The Dubious Case for Cheap Cigars

and other Vices

Growing Up Wilderville is a series of short stories based loosely on the actual events of a boy growing up in a small town. The Dubious Case for Cheap Cigars and other Vices is award-winning author Steven Scott Wallace’s origin story—the story that started it all.

For good or bad, everything you thought you knew about child-rearing you probably learned from your parents. To discover how he can better serve as a parent, Wallace takes us back to his childhood home in Wilderville, Oregon, in a hilarious attempt to understand how his and his lovely wife’s parenting skills differ so wildly.

In this humorous look at parenting, Wallace discovers that child-rearing doesn’t often give second chances and he ponders how it was that his parents had gotten it so terribly wrong the first time.