This book is both a journey through time, and places, with characters who gradually make sense of their families and also of themselves. It is their observations and growing understanding that is compelling. Though this book may be called a coming of age story, it is also a summation of an era when appearances and patriotism masked great pain. Set in the sixties USA, It touches on the conventional expectations of the time, but it rocks along the bumpy road of a reality, whose knocks are as relevant today as they were then.
A book to inspire and to share.