Cartoonists are often asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" and here, longtime New Yorker contributor David Sipress provides his answer in the form of a family memoir, illustrated with his sly drawings. Looking back on life in the Upper West Side during the JFK years, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his 12th-floor bedroom window to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist.