What a wonderful quirky story. I grew up in roughly the same time period, but we were a little closer to the forced integration of the big cities than the touchy-feely world of this novel.Vanessa is a wonderful 8-year old character and her observations and experiences are a lot of fun. I wondered wh...
I've always been fascinated with the 60's. This book seems to me to accurately use that time as a backdrop for the story, to truthfully show the sixties as a time of deep confusion about values. Vanessa, ...