Trek Lips Sunny Pecker and Me Author:William Minor It's 1976, the American Bicentennial year, and a California family sets out on a patriotic pilgrimage to Detroit, birthplace to the parents who want their teenage sons to see "real" American cars before they become extinct. Full of antic adventures, the trip to Detroit is a disaster. On the return journey the family joins the Jarvis Spindelshank... more » Overland Trail Re-enactment Party--a group celebrating, and imitating, one of the original journeys on the Oregon Trail. This leg of the Bicentennial trek leads to further comic adventures with heightened drama: a simulated cholera epidemic, an Indian attack, and a buffalo hunt--plus a surprise ending. William Minor's highly entertaining fact-based novel is intended for all audiences who love their families, American history and folklore, earthy humor, zany but charming storytelling, and just plain fun. Minor's literary craftsmanship and fine sense of the absurd have been compared to that of Mark Twain and Peter De Vries, and in this work--the satire of which may be even more relevant today than it was in 1976--Minor's bright, playful and purposeful prose, without making fun of anyone, has fun with just about everything and everyone American.« less