

That said, this does give a good idea of what life was like in small-town America back then. I'm not a violent person or a sadist, but I kept hoping something completely unexpected and dramatic would happen, like someone would die in a horrible accident or Angie's sister would get pregnant or something crazy.

They go out on dates and fall in love." The end.

The plot is pretty much "Angie likes Jack, and she is surprised he likes her too. For today's readership, it falls very flat. That's not to say it has no merit I'm sure it was quite popular in the 1940s, when it was published, as it's a romance that many girls would have related to, or at least understood. This might have been one of the most boring books I've ever read. Angie tells her story, starting off when she first meets Jack, the local baker's son, and the progression of their relationship over the next three months. It is the summer Angie is 17 years old, the summer before she goes to college in Chicago. Where I got it: I took this out of my local library.
