ISBN: 9798879633801

Category: Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / General

Page count: 278

When Leonard turns eleven, he gets a paper route. It's the 1950s. Witney is a small town, where everyone seems to know everyone else's business. He now gets a peek behind closed doors. It isn't his fault that he meets Miss Simpson, a 39-year-old spinster who always wanted a son. He's without a father, and his mother is too busy to give him attention. They bond immediately and for two years this mismatched pair share colorful adventures: swimming, gardening, dining, movies, and fishing (<i>at low tide, we tread the flats and dug in the muck with our toes for clams.</i>) Then puberty changes his world. Girls in school ridicule him for his relationship with her; his friends urge him to take advantage of her, leading to one tragic night that changes the trajectory of their lives.