In sixth grade my favorite book was Storm Canvas, a sea story set in the War of 1812. I wanted to run away to sea to be a cabin boy, but since thatwasn't in the cards, I jumped aboard the book and sailed away.
Cute photo mom! Is that the book? I'm sort of glad the cabin boy thing did not work out, since in that case I may not have come about, to borrow a maritime expression.
That's the book! Pop took photos capturing us in our usual pursuits (in an unnaturally tidy house) to show Grandma in CA we were coping. I was, as usual, reading; in Will's case, he was photographed making a salad, go figure!
GRACE AT WAR, an 70,000-word literary/mainstream novel, takes place during the explosive summer of 1970, when sixteen-year-old Grace Hart, traumatized by her boyfriend’s suicide, emulates the locked-down emotions of her combat-veteran brother, Worth. Their quest to make peace with their shattering memories and losses takes them from upstate New York to Long Island and eventually into the north woods where Grace must face their differences in order to save Worth and herself.
Brother War
Home he came Kicked down the door Swore his name Was Brother War.
Day and night He begged for more, “Light, oh, light,” Cried Brother War.
Horrors cease Deaths haunt no more. Sister Peace Saves Brother War.
Cute photo mom! Is that the book? I'm sort of glad the cabin boy thing did not work out, since in that case I may not have come about, to borrow a maritime expression.
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