John Campione has come home to start a new life, and it's beginning to look like it will be anything but a quiet one In the uproarious Life in a Nutshell, author John Figliomeni introduces readers to a delightful cast of characters that make most other neighborhoods look normal by comparison. Freshly retired from the fire department at age fifty-four, Campione makes the decision to return to his hometown of Childs, Pennsylvania. His need to reconnect with his roots grows in part from a well-intentioned wish to make sense of a life that was often fraught with mistakes. Through illuminating...