Open the pages of this story
and discover . . .
They never knew the details of their grandparents unspeakable loss . . .
They never fully understood their difficult father . . .
They never grasped the real reasons behind their mother's untimely death . . .
And they never knew what really happened to baby #7 . . .
They Only Thought They Knew . . .
Let this story take you back to the 50's and 60's of the baby-boomer generation . . .
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More than 8 million soldiers returned home at the end of WWII and started families
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Small ranches, capes, bungalows and multi-family homes sprung up to house them
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Factories were the common employment option
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The traditional American family structure was prevalent, with working fathers, homemaking mothers, and an average of three to six children
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Family members stayed close to home, living and working in the same town they grew up in
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While television was the main form of entertainment, kids spent more time playing outside in the neighborhood than inside
Where it all begins . . .
Alice Redmond has always known she was named after her aunt, a child who died tragically in 1945, years before Alice was born. But there was a problem. Since no one would ever speak of the child and there were no photographs of her, Alice never understood why she was given her name. As an adult, Alice begins to question everything she was told about her family’s past.
Great Summer Read!
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