The day Archie lost his thirty-one year job as a laborer at a meat packing company, he was forced to confront the secret he had held so closely for most of his life: at the age of fifty-four, he couldnt read. For all his adult life, hed been able to skirt around the issue. But now, forced to find a new job to support his family, he could no longer hide from the truth.
The Last Reader Standing is the story of Archies amazing-and often painful-journey of becoming literate at middle age, struggling with the newfound knowledge of his dyslexia. From the little boy who was banished to the back of...