Thursday, September 17, 2015

Coming Soon to a Book Store Near You - A Place We Knew Well; Susan Carol McCarthy


Having been a kid in the 1960's the 1962 timeframe of this soon to be released novel really appeals to me. What do you think?

A Place We Knew Well; Susan Carol McCarthy
Bantam - September - 2015

“Susan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,” said The Washington Post of the author’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands. Now McCarthy returns with another enthralling story of a family—their longings, their fears, and their secrets—swept up in the chaos at the height of the Cold War.
 
Late October, 1962. Wes Avery, a one-time Air Force tail-gunner, is living his version of the American Dream as loving husband to Sarah, doting father to seventeen-year-old Charlotte, and owner of a successful Texaco station along central Florida’s busiest highway. But after President Kennedy announces that the Soviets have nuclear missiles in Cuba, Army convoys clog the highways and the sky fills with fighter planes. Within days, Wes’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.
 
Sarah, nervous and watchful, spends more and more time in the family’s bomb shelter, slipping away into childhood memories and the dreams she once held for the future. Charlotte is wary but caught up in the excitement of high school—her nomination to homecoming court, the upcoming dance, and the thrill of first love. Wes, remembering his wartime experience, tries to keep his family’s days as normal as possible, hoping to restore a sense of calm. But as the panic over the Missile Crisis rises, a long-buried secret threatens to push the Averys over the edge.
 
With heartbreaking clarity and compassion, Susan Carol McCarthy captures the shock and innocence, anxiety and fear, in those thirteen historic days, and brings vividly to life one ordinary family trying to hold center while the world around them falls apart.

6 comments:

  1. I like the sound of this one too. I wasn't very old in 1962, but I appreciate the sense of the time that I vaguely remember. Never had a bomb shelter - did you?

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  2. This one is next on my reading schedule...I love the time period and am somewhat fascinated by the Cold War.

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  3. I'm the perfect age for this one too. It sounds good!

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  4. I was too young to remember this happening, but definitely want to read the book.

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  5. Yes, my Dad says that is right up his ally too!

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  6. Sounds like a good story. Thanks for the review

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