Just mentioning the word homework in Amy Foskey’s house has been known to spark arguments and tears. But that’s a thing of the past, at least for the Tucson mom’s fourth-grader, whose Marana school ...

In this raucous coming-of-age memoir, novelist and journalist Dyer (The Last Days of Roger Federer) recalls growing up in the 1960s and ’70s in the English town of Cheltenham. Dyer’s industrious ...