Judith Viorst

Presents a collection of poetic works on the peaks and valleys of being a septuagenarian, exploring such themes as grandparenthood, marriage, and senior sex.

It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.