"One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Wedding and To Kill a Mockingbird, that sees more than it lets on." New York Times Book Review
A book of acute insight and delicious humor. . . . Absorbing and poignant and full of difficult truth. Rosellen Brown, New York Magazine
Though radio broadcasts grow more harrowing every day, and soon, swastika-marked envelopes begin to arrive from cousins overseas, but the fighting in Europe still seems far away from the idyllic California home of ten-year-old tomboy Suse Hansen. But after Pearl Harbor, everything changes. In Ella Leffland s beautifully wrought story of a young girl s coming of age during WWII, the fighting in Europe looms behind the tranquility of family, friends, and neighbors until the darkness of the war becomes suddenly, irrevocably real.