Book Synopsis
Deer. Bears. Boo-Boos. And a big brown dawg.
Fifty years after the original manuscript was typed, this memoir of life in the old Oneida Post Office in Washington state finally comes to light, with all the humor, zest for life and love of animals that Arlie Fauver brought with her to Oneida in the early 1950s.
“Who in the hell would buy that place?” was Arlie’s first reaction to the ramshackle old building that would later become her family’s home – a home full of fun, friends and laughter; heartache, loss and trouble; and critters of all descriptions.
When it came time to leave Oneida, the only way to keep it in her heart was to write it all down, and these are the resulting tales – of an attic full of bats, accidental elk hunting, a cornflake-loving deer, the best big brown dawg that ever lived - and the boo-boos themselves, who turned a neglected old post office into the heart and soul of a small community along the shores of Deep River.