From an award-winning poet and compulsive joke teller, a memoir about the jokes that educated him about history, religion, and family--delighting him, and often horrifying him, as he grew into adulthood. Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself--what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him...