Looks Like Howard An irreverent memoir of death, childhood, and growing up. by Patricia Kambitsch
Trade Paperback	5 ½ x 8 ½	Childhood Memoir/ Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement
Release date: March 2008		ISBN: 1933016485
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Ever since I’ve known Howard, he’s been dead. 

Author, Patricia Kambitsch, tells how her father's untimely death spurred a lifetime of storytelling. However dead he may be, Howard, the mild-mannered, über-geek hero, thrives through the collective memories and imagination of his widow and six children.

Questions of what really happened to her father give way to fantasy suspicions that include the questionable next-door neighbor who was last seen with her father, secret government projects, and alien abduction.  Truer tales range from imaginative family antics at graveside, to bullying in the bathtub, to playing Jesus on the sidewalk.  In the end, answers to the questions become less important than truths revealed through the re-creation of the past through shared memories.

Reviews and Accolades

"Captivating, full of great twists and a fabulous read."
-Howard Glasser, author of The Inner Wealth Initiative

"It's a book filled with often startling emotion. the whole world of family, of identity, of profound pain and humor."
-Joyce Dyer, author of In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey

"In a world where sticky sentimentality is the norm, Looks Like Howard is a completely irreverent, original, funny, poignant romp through the wicked imagination of the author -- an imagination that finds Howard nowhere, and in a heart beat, everywhere."
-Barry Heerman, author of Noble Purpose and Team Spirit

About the Author

As one of thirteen brothers and sisters, Patricia Kambitsch triumphs over the chaos of her cold war childhood by telling dark and funny stories about her unsuspecting family.

Looks Like Howard, springs from a child's innocent viewpoint of death, family conflict, and nightmares of apocalypse. Invention overcomes reality, with the goofy wisdom of childhood winning over the tragic mysteries of life. Kambitsch treats memoir as a continuum of expression, ranging from objectified personal experience to life-inventing fantasy.

Kambitsch is host and facilitator of several long-standing creative arts programs in Dayton, Ohio including an interdisciplinary arts salon, creative arts workshops, and writers' groups. When not in Ohio, she is stirring up communities of participatory art in Toronto, where she also resides with her husband, Peter Jones.