Through a crisis of faith, hope emerges. The author explores his crisis of faith when his sister, Peggy, dies at age 40 from complications due to diabetes. Through creative application of images and metaphor, employing the cicada (heat bug) and the phoebe, this memoir takes the reader on a personal journey of humor, poignancy and struggle that ultimately ends with a sense of hope. If you grew up in Smalltown, U.S.A. - and even if you didn't - "Sting of the Heat Bug" will take you home. Stealing strawberries, trying to make sense of the secret code of adult-speak, dealing with unexpected pain...