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The Children's Crusade
A Literary Fiction Novel by Ann Packer
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Multi-Generational,
- 1950s California
This book is for you if you're into...
- Multi-decade family sagas set in pre-Silicon Valley California
- Siblings navigating old wounds when the prodigal returns
- Parents whose dreams collide with suburban expectations
Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children.
Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. Years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence sets off a struggle over the family's future. One by one, they tell their stories, revealing the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one family, over the course of five decades.
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