Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows-a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died-Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud-"not Buddy"-Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. Both of them start real, real small and then. "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds.
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