" ... “or the seventy-six million American Baby Boomers who grew up in an age of phone booths, drive-in movies, record players, and a zillion other things, which like the dinosaur, are now extinct…”
A good picture of life in the fifties and early sixties in New England's small towns. The story is about a Cathlic boy, but take away his Alter Boy duties and asking Baby Jesus for forgivness and the story could be about any young person during that time in New England. The book took me back to those years of trying to figure out about sex (no internet to search for answers just magazines like National Geographic) and why our parents were stricter than our friends parents. At the end when he joins the service and travels to the South, his experiences were simular to what many from New England encountered, as most of the small towns in New England did not have any residents with black skin. Yes, I laughed and thought about many of my old classmates from Gardner, Massachusetts. ...