{"product_id":"cops-kid-a-milwaukee-memoir-9780299188801","title":"Cop's Kid: A Milwaukee Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e B-Day, as it came to be known, finally arrived. It was a Friday. A school day. I identified with Cinderella as I watched Dad get ready for work. Holster, check. Gun, check. Billy club, check. Handcuffs, check. . . . Saturday morning I got up early. Dad was already gone. Back to work. Ushering the Beatles out of town. On the table . . . there were two small bars of soap, slightly used, the words \"Coach House Inn\" still legible. One book of matches with four missing. And a note from Dad, \"From their room.\" . . . No one else's dad comes home from work with something that might, just might, have been intimate with a Beatle.\u003cbr\u003e Growing up, Mel Miskimen thought that a gun and handcuffs on the kitchen table were as normal as a gallon of milk and a loaf of Mrs. Karl's bread. Her father, a Milwaukee cop for almost forty years was part Super Hero (He simply held up his hand and three lanes of traffic came to a screeching halt) and part Supreme Being (He could be anywhere at anytime. I never knew when or where he would pop up.) Miskimen's memoir, told in humorous vignettes, tells what it was like for a girl growing up with a dad who packed a lunch and packed heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMel Miskimen is a lifelong Milwaukee resident and an actor, writer, and humorist who regularly appears on the \u003ci\u003eHigher Ground\u003c\/i\u003e program on Wisconsin Public Radio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318914945298,"sku":"9780299188801","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99ae9153-41f7-41e1-8de4-f187e73d23d4.jpg?v=1727562226","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cops-kid-a-milwaukee-memoir-9780299188801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}