Acclaimed Coming of Age Novel--for Adults. Suitable for Young Adults

Cold Air Return

It’s the summer of 1960 in rural Pennsylvania. Twelve-year-old Eugene Ahern listens through an abandoned cold air return register to what the adults are up to downstairs.  It’s a summer when childhood falls away, displaced by a confusing and complex world where the grownups try to keep control. For Eugene and his friends, it’s a summer when the Yankees are in first place (again), scrub baseball the boys’ afternoon passtime, and Pall Mall the group’s cigarette of choice. Who could ask for more? But the grownups just won’t leave them alone. As boys evolving through adolescence seek to make sense of it all, malice threatens to overwhelm innocence . Loyalties are put to the test. Hard realities challenge youthful well-being — if not their lives. Meanwhile, that “kid brat” from sixth grade–well, how did she suddenly become one of them and turn into someone new?

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Kathryn Moris
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