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St. Martin's Press
November 2013
On Sale: October 29, 2013
432 pages
ISBN: 0312643721
EAN: 9780312643720
Kindle: B008RLTW9O
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family
of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades
Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than
Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-
year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting
on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni
helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand
where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the
Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the
world’s biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose
astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's
insistence that girls can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same
dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great
Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that
will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race
riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of
war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is
determined to take on a very different kind of danger in
impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn
back to each other—and to Palisades Park—until the park
closes forever in 1971. Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at
transforming historical events into irresistible fiction
that made Alan Brennert’s Moloka'i and Honolulu into reading
group favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when
life seemed simpler—except, of course, it wasn't
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