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.
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a
transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn
chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan. Yet for ten-year-old Eli
Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his
family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam
vet dad; his wild sister; his former warprotester aunt; and his
tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he
can be himself. As tempers flare and his father's nightmares rage,
Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon even he cannot escape the
current of conflict. From Silas House comes a tender look at the
complexities of childhood and the realities of war -- a
quintessentially Southern novel filled with music, nostalgic
detail, a deep respect for nature, and a powerful sense of place.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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