Pre-Owned The Magic of Ordinary: A Memoir (Paperback) 1943505799 9781943505791

A heart-tugging memoir of a Daddy, his daughters, and the power of one good man to change the world? Melford Johnson is an ordinary man. He has an ordinary job, lives in an ordinary southern Indiana suburb in the 1960's with his ordinary wife, and his three ordinary daughters. But Melford Johnson is also "Daddy," a man who can capture magic in the palm of his hand, sprinkle stardust over every occasion, and would pull down the moon for his three little girls just so they could bask in its glow. As seen through the adoring eyes of his daughter, Missi, Daddy takes the Johnson family on hilarious family adventures. But he also faces challenging situations with grace: delivering his own baby in a tiny bathroom in the middle of the night, winning over a suspicious mother-in-law, and discovering-at his own father's funeral-that he has a black aunt and an entire black family he never knew.Missi pedals her bicycle with its banana seat and squirrel-tail streamer through an American landscape before cellphones, before social media, before cynicism. An America of swimming holes, wood-paneled station wagons, secret caves, Maw-maws and Nannys, and hard won treasures stored away in piggy banks. An America where the greatest treasure of all is a father's love. Whether Mel Johnson is the daddy you had or the daddy you only wished you had, you'll find yourself falling under his spell in a story that perfectly captures a time when innocence could still grow into optimism and love was all you needed to make magic and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary?"Melissa Gouty writes the magical story of all our lives in The Magic of Ordinary. If you grew up in the 60's and 70's, this is an Our Town for our generation."-Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author Contributors: Teresa Medeiros and Melissa Gouty