Three generations suffer the consequences of an ill-fated romance between a sixteen-year-old from the wrong side of the tracks and the son of the richest man in a small upstate New York town.
A teenage boy falls in love with an "upper-class" girl and gets to know his estranged grandfather in one heartbreaking summer which climaxes in a shattering search for Nazi war criminals.
Bud and Jubal Shoemaker's family are Quakers in the small town of Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, during World War Two whose opposition to fighting creates division within the community when Bud declares himself a conscientious objector.
In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War II.
