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Bantam
October 2015
On Sale: September 29, 2015
Featuring: Wes Avery; Sarah; Charlotte
ISBN: 080417654X
EAN: 9780804176545
Kindle: B00RRT33OC
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Women's Fiction | Fiction
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.
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