Book Review

BOOK REVIEW: The Bric-a-Brac of Mickey Mack

This sharp, witty contemporary poetry collection captures the emotional leap into adulthood through coming-of-age themes, written in a humorous, satirical style using parodies. This book pays homage to the time period where the youthful optimist now bears the weight of adulthood with a sink-or-swim attitude. The parody verses are clever, witty, relatable, and meaningful. It's a light-hearted approach that offers insight into everyday struggles for readers entering a new phase of life. While the book highlights the inevitable sense of crushing defeat and loss one can encounter when becoming an adult, it also shows the importance of laughing anyway. Author Mickey Mack feels life can be a game of avoiding the consequences of your own actions. Illustrations are eye-catching caricatures that punctuate the verses. I enjoyed the preface, a lengthy author overview that defines what bric-à-brac means to him. He is upfront, stating he considers himself a collector of clutter, a great cataloger of nonsensical junk of incalculable sentimental value. But in his defense of clutter and collecting mementos, one can be transported to a time of great significance, when, at some point, this trash becomes your greatest treasure. These treasures may remind us of a moment in time, who we were in our life's story. Don't waste time, jump into the zany world of Mickey Mack and enjoy the hilarious ride through poetic verses.

ALL ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mickey Mack hails from a speck in the flyover zone, a Midwestern

city in the American Heartland. Mack has spent his life tripping

over his shoelaces into success. A walking oxymoron, Mack’s life is a parade of ill-advised decisions that somehow land him in clover. His carefully plotted schemes disastrously explode, while his spur-of-the-moment capers bear the juiciest fruit. He’s fallen backward through existence as a self-proclaimed wiseman in hindsight, a lifelong old soul now exiting youth resentfully and ungracefully.

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