![]() ![]() The boys’ high-strung, musically talented mother is an important part of the story, although she’s not very helpful or empathetic. They look to two guides: their minister father, who feels a little like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and their father’s alcoholic but well-meaning war buddy. The boys discover sex, pity, regret, and how inadequate adults can be. ![]() It was a more innocent era and yet timeless in its class divisions, its damaged veterans, its many cruelties, and the ordinary grace that helps people transcend those hurts. The next deaths would involve Frank’s own family.įrank’s story, told forty years later, of what happened that summer perfectly captures the essence of small-town America in 1961. ![]() He and his younger brother Jake would discover the second body and kept secret their talk with the old Native American man going through the dead man’s pockets. The first death was a boy his age, a lonely boy Frank regretted not reaching out to. For the people of New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961 would be a summer of death, and that was especially true for rebellious 13-year-old Frank Drum. ![]()
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