A nearsighted boy with a limp finds his outlook very different at the end of a summer in which he has acquired and cared for a lame horse and become good friends with a doctor whose face has been disfigured by burns.
Jeff's father, President of Golden Nugget Margarine, has a fixation on the color scheme in his stable. His ambition to raise and show only golden horses conflicts with Jeff's desire to be like regular people and ride a brown horse around the countryside.
The discovery of human remains at the site of her father's old drive-in movie theater stirs Callie Anne Benton's memories of a summer thirty-six years earlier, when her mother fell in love with a romantic drifter.
The discovery of human remains at the site of her father's old drive-in movie theater stirs Callie Anne Benton's memories of a summer thirty-six years earlier, when her mother fell in love with a romantic drifter.
