Summer of '69
Current Read #1 (April 30, 2020)
Everyone should have a Summer of ’69 in their lives!
This is an amazing summer read!
Anyone who is as old as I am can remember 1969. I know I turned 11 that summer. We had just moved to Kansas from Texas. I was feeling lost and alone without any friends.
Out in the wide world, the Vietnam war was going strong and young men were being drafted and dying over seas. The innocence of the 50's was growing up and rebelling.
This book makes you re-live every bit of that and more, set in the Summer of 1969 in Nantucket.
Three children of WASP parentage and their half-sister, who is half-Jewish, and their comming-of-age in the summer of 1969.
This book deals with one family who’s only son has been drafted and is serving in Vietnam. One daughter is pregnant with twins and having a hard time in her marriage, another daughter is rebelling the only way she knows how (by striking out on her own and trying to make her own living). The youngest daughter is trying hard to come to terms with turning 13, (hard to do at any time) being half Jewish in a WASP family, missing her older brother, dealing with a seemingly uncaring mother and a hard-working but distant father, and burgeoning desires that no one has any time to explain to her.
It touches on the Kennedy Chappaquidick scandal and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
I am having such fun reading this! It is a peek into a life I will never actually see, but can imagine thru these pages.
Everyone should have a Summer of ’69 in their lives!
This is an amazing summer read!
Anyone who is as old as I am can remember 1969. I know I turned 11 that summer. We had just moved to Kansas from Texas. I was feeling lost and alone without any friends.
Out in the wide world, the Vietnam war was going strong and young men were being drafted and dying over seas. The innocence of the 50's was growing up and rebelling.
This book makes you re-live every bit of that and more, set in the Summer of 1969 in Nantucket.
Three children of WASP parentage and their half-sister, who is half-Jewish, and their comming-of-age in the summer of 1969.
This book deals with one family who’s only son has been drafted and is serving in Vietnam. One daughter is pregnant with twins and having a hard time in her marriage, another daughter is rebelling the only way she knows how (by striking out on her own and trying to make her own living). The youngest daughter is trying hard to come to terms with turning 13, (hard to do at any time) being half Jewish in a WASP family, missing her older brother, dealing with a seemingly uncaring mother and a hard-working but distant father, and burgeoning desires that no one has any time to explain to her.
It touches on the Kennedy Chappaquidick scandal and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
I am having such fun reading this! It is a peek into a life I will never actually see, but can imagine thru these pages.
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