A Memoir: a novel is the haunting new memoir from Matthew Hanlon. It covers his fictional childhood in a small Massachusetts suburb, a suburb where he was hidden away from the public, who knew him only as "that poor baby kidnapped by family straight out of the hospital."

From an early age, he needed to learn life skills most only acquire once they've left the nest. Advanced calculus, basic calculator skills, drug running techniques. Not that the latter is a life skill most learn upon leaving the nest. It's just one of those skills you don't expect a six year old to possess.

Only that's a complete and utter, bald-faced lie. What really happened shocked the small Massachusetts town of Sturbridge, making them question their very devotion to all things 18th century.

In my Worcester, Massachusetts, my Aunt Consuelo never took me to the dentist's office to keep her dentist's appointment. No, she smuggled me out of Memorial Hospital on February 5th, 1975 and, from that moment on, was afraid to bring me anywhere in public where I might be recognized. And she had perfect teeth that seemingly never needed care, anyway.

He was also, with 98% certainty, abducted by aliens. And fought in two major arenas of combat, only one of which involved a computer game. Missing an arm, three teeth, and sporting a bad haircut, this is the story of his redemption. His quest to find his true family, the one from whom he was kidnapped.

Dealing with the gritty streets of Worcester, Massachusetts and the slightly less gritty streets of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where he disguised himself from his wretched Aunt Consuelo as an eighteenth century farmer's son