As Told by Monk

What's it like to be a 9-year-old in 1960, in Jersey City? What's it like to wear a hooded red sweatshirt and be known to adults and kids alike as Monk? What's it like when your sort of girlfriend dies? What's it like to encounter death -- and to then encounter a truth informing you that someone you know may have killed the girl? What's it like? Monk himself will tell you.