Make a return trip to the seemingly ordinary small town were extraordinary things happen. Reunite with the town's hard-working sheriff, Carter, as he tries to deal with his adopted hometown's unique geniuses, volatile experiments, and Earth-shaking secrets, all while trying to raise his feisty teenage daughter on his own.

The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s.