Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, devotes himself to reclaiming the affections of Daisy Buchanan, a young woman he met before acquiring his fortune who has since married an extremely wealthy, but brutal man.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Nora Silk moves to a typical suburban community in the 1950s, determined to raise her two children without a husband and with a liberated spirit that foreshadows the decade ahead.
