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Smash, Smash, Smash: The True Story of Kai the Hitchhiker

Contributor(s): Fairbanks, Philip (Author), Fleck, Alissa (Foreword by), Painting, Wendy S (Introduction by)

ISBN: 9781959947998

Publisher: Is It Wet Yet Press

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Pub Date: February 6, 2023

Dewey: B

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.13" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.84 lbs) 454 pages

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description:

"That woman was in danger, so I ran up behind him with a hatchet... Smash, smash, SUH-MASH!!!"

Brief description: Philip Fairbanks is an entertainment reporter, journalist, and amateur historian with 20 years publishing experience. His work has appeared in SUNY's art journal Afterimage, Ghettoblaster magazine, UK's Morning Star newspaper, multiple times in CUNY's graduate paper The Advocate and several other print and online publications. He has been corresponding with Kai and reporting on his case for over five years.

Review Quotes:

Advance praise for Smash, Smash, Smash:


"Phil is not the kind of journalist who files a story and gets on with his life. That passion and integrity shine through in this book, and generally in the way Phil makes you care about the people he's covering. [...] When I read this book, as with so many things Phil has written, I feel that I am in good hands, being carefully guided to the truth."

Alissa Fleck (Newsweek, SF Gate, Houston Chronicle)


"In his latest book, Philip Fairbanks wields a wealth of laboriously earned evidence and detail, the product of five years of research, to tell a harrowing and heartbreaking tale nobody (until him) deemed worthy of telling, and some would rather remain untold. [...] In his characteristically engaging style and with a dexterous balance of compassion, curiosity, and analysis, the author walks the reader through a hellish nightmare; one that Kai was born into and in which he continues to exist."

Wendy Painting, PhD (author, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: the secret lives of Timothy McVeigh)


Philip Fairbanks is an entertainment reporter, journalist, and amateur historian with 20 years publishing experience. His work has appeared in SUNY's art journal Afterimage, Ghettoblaster magazine, UK's Morning Star newspaper, multiple times in CUNY's graduate paper The Advocate and several other print and online publications. He has been corresponding with Kai and reporting on his case for over five years.



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