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<p><b>In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.</b><p>Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan. Yet for ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former warprotester aunt; and his tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he can be himself. As tempers flare and his father&#8217;s nightmares rage, Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon even he cannot escape the current of conflict. From Silas House comes a tender look at the complexities of childhood and the realities of war &#8212; a quintessentially Southern novel filled with music, nostalgic detail, a deep respect for nature, and a powerful sense of place.<p><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In his YA debut, adult author House tells the story of a smalltown family reeling from the Vietnam War. The narrator, Eli Book, describes the sum

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Author

House, Silas, 1971-

Publisher

Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780763652883

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

4.04 / 5 (1,315 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14