An erratic memoir reflecting author William Frame's search for an existence both true to its time and free enough of it to be guided in moral and ethical matters by a higher order. Having learned to live in two worlds as a farm kid in Appalachia raised by urban Philadelphian parents, that experience deepens when he disappoints his father in childhood and creates a self-portraying myth to overcome it--that his adult life amounts to a repair of a terrible childhood, wrongly portraying those years as "miserable" and later years as "restorative." Writing out this two-worlds idea via this book corrects the narrative and restores Frame's capacity for vocational living.