There is comedy - the way their cat prefers her dad's rough handling and verbal abuse to her own gentle and practiced petting. There is tragedy, like when her mother leaves on Thanksgiving Day while her dad is out raking in the backyard.
Although it begins with the story of their reading pact, the book actually covers a lot of other things as well: celebrating thunderstorms and spiders, an irrational fear that JFK's corpse is below her on the bottom bunk, learning to ride a bike, shopping for a prom dress with a single father who just doesn't get it. The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared is her story. eventually lasting for nine years, until Alice left for college. "The Streak" hit the thousand-day goal and kept going. They disagree on whether it started with a goal of one hundred days but it eventually increased to a thousand. So they made a pact: he would read to her every night for at least ten minutes, before midnight.
But her father, an elementary school librarian, worried that pretty soon she would declare herself too old for stories, as her older sister did years before. By the time Alice Ozma was nine years old, she had gotten used to having her father read stories to her.
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