Once, in the summer of 1960, five thirteen-year-olds in a small Ohio town heard an explosion and decided it was aliens. And maybe, for a season, the world was wide enough to hold that possibility — wide enough for lightning bugs and mystery and the particular courage of children who haven’t yet learned to limit what they believe is possible.
Babka has written a story about the last summer of childhood innocence, not in the sentimental way that phrase usually implies, but in the true way — the summer when friendship is tested by things that can’t be fixed, when the world reveals more complexity than you were prepared for, and when what you thought you were looking for turns out to be less important than the people you were looking with.
The dedication tells the whole story: this book was written in honor of a friendship that crossed lines the world kept drawing.
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