In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.
There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former wa.
Yet for ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his family apart.
And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan.
Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio.
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky.
In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family