Badger State - A Wisconsin Memoir is the story of an Irish Catholic family's move from suburban Chicago to Southeastern Wisconsin in the mid-1970s. The book is told through the eyes of the youngest of six siblings, and addresses economic uncertainty and disparity, as well as Midwestern education, immigration and diversity within the town of Racine, Wisconsin. Badger State examines the challenges met and overcome by a family experiencing internal and external change over the course of two decades, it is engaging, entertaining and moving and evoke memories of adolescence.