With keen­ly obser­vant sto­ry­telling, icon­ic New York­er car­toon­ist David Sipress writes about his hap­less place in his Upper West Side fam­i­ly in the age of Sput­nik and JFK. Through­out, car­toons appear in the nar­ra­tive with spot-on pre­ci­sion, adding humor and insight to evoca­tive pro­les of his fam­i­ly and mus­ings on cre­ativ­i­ty and art.