Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Fiction_Gift_Guide Reclaim your attention

Reclaim your attention

Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR)

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Fiction_Gift_Guide Reclaim your attentionAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactionsnot only in global affairs but in American society and Americans lives. A privileged white