When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl's name-Stacey.
But Stacey's name was just the first hurdle he'd face in his uphill climb from birth to manhood. He also had to deal with an entitled older brother, the hodgepodge of different men his mother was involved with, and the nomadic lifestyle he was forced to endure for five years. And to top it all off, his mother couldn't cook a decent meal to save her life.
Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name is Stacey Roberts' lighthearted, often hilarious account of growing up in an unstable household during the 1980s. Full of humor, history, and hope, it follows Stacey from the hospital room where he was born to the Winnebago that carried him across the country, filling in the gaps with a wit and humor that anyone with a dysfunctional family can appreciate.
So go ahead and start reading. Once you hop aboard the Winnebago with Stacey and his quirky family, you'll find that you're in for the ride or your life, where what you learn along the way is not only entertaining, but also enormously enriching.
About the Author: Stacey Roberts is proof positive that one man's trash can be another man's treasure. The writer grew up in a dysfunctional family and faced an uphill climb from birth to manhood. He was saddled with a girl's first name and cast in the shadow of his older brother-and his mother, who can't cook, frequently remarried, and had the family traipsing across the country in a Winnebago.
But Stacey turned his upbringing around and eventually went to college and married. He received a BA from the University of Miami and an MA from the University of Cincinnati, and he is father to two brilliant and inspiring daughters. In his debut book, Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name, he has managed to look back at his rocky childhood from a lighthearted yet appreciative standpoint, enabling him to tell a tale that's not only hilarious but also very real and amazingly hopeful.
